Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.

In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the laws, and private individuals. Among these last, the poorest laborer stood on equal ground with the wealthiest millionaire, and generally on a more favored one whenever their rights seem to jar.

Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.

Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with an unprepared people a tyranny still of the many, the few, or the one.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.