The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.

We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves, in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved,) or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.