Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world.

Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Health is worth more than learning.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.