I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery.

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, invented and put into the papers whatever might serve the [government] ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper.

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.