Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends

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

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

"It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the power of taking from them the trial by jury in civil cases, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce, the habeas corpus laws, and of yoking them with a standing army. This is a degeneracy in the principles of liberty... which I [would not have expected for at least] four centuries."

Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper.