There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.
The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.
...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless.
Never trouble another for what you can do yourself
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.