I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

The best (remedy) I can devise would be to give future commissions to (federal) judges for six years with a re-appointability by the President with the approbation of both houses. If this would not be independence enough, I know not what would be.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known.

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.