There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.

If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact.

I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.

I do love this people [the French] with all my heart, and think that with a better religion and a better form of government and their present governors their condition and country would be most enviable.

The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

Without virtue, happiness cannot be.

A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions. But should even this be counteracted by violence on the right of expatriation, the other branch of our example then presents itself for imitation: to rise on their rulers and do as we have done.