Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.

Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven.

No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

Light and liberty go together.

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.