Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.

Tranquility is the old man's milk.

As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers.

Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom. 2. To divide every county into hundreds, of such size that all the children of each will be within reach of a central school in it.