Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.

I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.