There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.

On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.