So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. Which would be your second choice? France.

The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of fraud. Nor is this natural right among the first which is taken into the hands of regular government after it is instituted. It was long retained by our ancestors. It was a part of their common law, laid down in their books, recognized by all the authorities, and regulated as to circumstances of practice.

Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends