I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the right.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.