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

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

During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted, inasmuch as they tend to lessen its usefulness and to sap its safety.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.