We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.

The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.

It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.

Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.

It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.