The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.

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.

The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

Of all exercises, walking is the best.

The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.