All authority belongs to the people.

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.

Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world.

I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing; as a wise Creator must have seen to be necessary in an animal destined to live in society.

In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.