The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

[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.

The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.

Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.