The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy . . . Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.

Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man - endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame.

The merchant has no country .

Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.