I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect, but the utility greater. it will make you adore your own country, it's soil, it's climate, it's equality, liberty, laws, people & manners. my god! how little do my countrymen know.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.

I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.