I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.

Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions. But should even this be counteracted by violence on the right of expatriation, the other branch of our example then presents itself for imitation: to rise on their rulers and do as we have done.

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.

We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own.