What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.

Ministers and merchants love nobody.

Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.