It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them

We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.

Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.