I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude

If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.

I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.