Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.