No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country; and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.

The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not. On the contrary, the small effect of these tumults seems to have given more confidence in the firmness of our governments. The interposition of the people themselves on the side of government has had a great effect on the opinion here in Europe.