An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.

In short I must confide in you to take such care of the men under you as an economical householder would of his own family, doingevery thing within himself as far as he can, and calling for as few supplies as possible. The less you depend for supplies from this quarter, the less you will be disappointed.

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.