I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude

We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.