[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market.

An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.

Health is the requisite after morality