A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed to each and every citizen.

The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.

My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . . . worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens.

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.