No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.... Do not be frightened from this inquiry from any fear of its consequences. If it ends in the belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes called, are the evidence with which his Creator has furnished him. ... The moral duties which exist between individual and individual in a state of nature, accompany them into a state of society ... their Maker not having released them from those duties on their forming themselves into a nation.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.