That government that governs least governs best.

In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty.

Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.