Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against monopolies, trial by juries in all cases, no suspensions of the habeas corpus, no standing armies. These are fetters against doing evil which no honest government should decline.

People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.

Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.