I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.

Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.

. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.