Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof of the infallibility of establishments?