People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.

I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.

If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

As government grows, freedom recedes.

The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.

not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.