Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.

The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.

No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us.

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?