My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.

I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making of bread, butter, cheese, soap, to the incubation of eggs, &c.

Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

A free government is of all others the most energetic.

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms

On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?