Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility.

It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration.

A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.