[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.

I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.

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 cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.