We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.

We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.

No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice . . . . These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.

Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.