If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.

The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.

Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.

the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.

A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.

Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.