No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.

Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly occupy and disquiet the mind.

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.

The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature.

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.