The power of making war often prevents it.

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged.

we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of your kindness in the two branches of Botany and Natural history to which we wish him particularly to apply.

Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.