If I could not go to heaven with but a party, I would not go there at all. Therefore, I am not of the party of federalists. But I am much further from that of the anti-federalists.

It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms

A room without books is like a life without meaning.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.