Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibits, that possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes.

Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.

in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and I hope you will have reason to be contended with his capacity & character.

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

All authority belongs to the people.