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

All authority belongs to the people.

The people are not always well-informed, but is better that they have misconceptions that make them restless than that they be lethargic-for lethargy in the people means death for republics.

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.

It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience [has] shown that, even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

One had rather have no opinion than a false one.