All men are created equal.

Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

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.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.