We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.

The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.

I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude

If I could not go to heaven with but a party, I would not go there at all. Therefore, I am not of the party of federalists. But I am much further from that of the anti-federalists.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of the difficulty of those of your letter, that their are means of artificial buoyancy by which man may be supported in the Air, the Balloon has proved, and that means of directing it may be discovered is against no law of Nature and is therefore possible as in the case of Birds, but to do this by mechanical means alone in a medium so rare and unassisting as air must have the aid of some principal not yet generally known.

A true patriot will defend his country from its government.