The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.

From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs.

Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.