There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the right.

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.

Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.