History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

What i value more than all things, good humor.

The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system.