I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I suspect it is in their kitchens and not in their churches that the reformation must be worked.

The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.

Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.

It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.

Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep he waters pure.