By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.