The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself.

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.