While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.

That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as I cannot place among possible things in this age and country.

I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.

I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.

We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.

He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world.