I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended by their priests, and sometimes by a hen-pecked husband, they pour forth the effusions of their love to Jesus, in terms as amatory and carnal, as their modesty would permit them to use a mere earthly lover.

music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.

The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.