He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

My reason for fixing them in office for a term of years, rather than for life, was that they might have an idea that they were at a certain period to return into the mass of the people and become the governed instead of the governors which might still keep alive that regard to the public good that otherwise they might perhaps be induced by their independence to forget.

To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement

The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.