When the heart is right, the feet are swift.

A free government is of all others the most energetic.

Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.

And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them.

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population.

The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts.