[I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of the kite and snake; whichever destroys the other, leaves a destroyer the less for the world.

The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not. On the contrary, the small effect of these tumults seems to have given more confidence in the firmness of our governments. The interposition of the people themselves on the side of government has had a great effect on the opinion here in Europe.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.

The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.

No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.

I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.