An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.

Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate for long years to come. Their steady habits [will] exclude the advances of information, and they [will] seem exactly where they [have always been]. And there [the] clergy will always keep them if they can. [They] will follow the bark of liberty only by the help of a tow-rope.

We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.

Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.