Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.

Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.

Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.