Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world.

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.

Public offices were not made for private convenience.

The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibits, that possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes.