Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Health is the requisite after morality

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country

ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.

Never use two words when one will do.