ours are the only farmers who can read Homer

I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect, but the utility greater. it will make you adore your own country, it's soil, it's climate, it's equality, liberty, laws, people & manners. my god! how little do my countrymen know.

The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine.

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

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.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights