None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army

There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks.

The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!

A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.

Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.