The soil is the gift of God to the living.

The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.

A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.