To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.

Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.

I do love this people [the French] with all my heart, and think that with a better religion and a better form of government and their present governors their condition and country would be most enviable.