Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.

The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them

Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.