The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.

When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with confidence to equal advances by the present generation, and have no doubt they will consequently be as much wiser than we have been as we than our fathers were, and they than the burners of witches.

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.