For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.

The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills.

Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.

The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself.