The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.

Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.

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

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.