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.

Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.

You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it's motives.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.