If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

A schism has taken place among the chemists. A particular set of them in France have undertaken to remodel all the terms of the science, and to give every substance a new name, the composition, and especially the termination of which, shall define the relation in which it stands to other substances of the same family.

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.