No society is so precious as that of one’s own family.

We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own.

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.

I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have endeavored to take care when young.

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe.