We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.

From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs.

Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

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

An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor.

Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.