We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government.

The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from it's indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power and pre-eminence.

If I could not go to heaven with but a party, I would not go there at all. Therefore, I am not of the party of federalists. But I am much further from that of the anti-federalists.