Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.

Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our Constitution, not to cherish its exercise even where in opposition to ourselves.

The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose.

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.