Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

The soil is the gift of God to the living.

I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force.