Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours.

In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.

The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.