It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Where everyman is participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year but everyday, he will let the heart be torn out of his body sooner than his power be wrested from him by a Caesar or a Bonaparte.

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

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven.

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.