We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests and kings, as she can. What a colossus shall we be when the southern continent comes up to our mark! What a stand will it seem as a ralliance for the reason and freedom of the globe!

I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery.

Never use one word when two will do.

I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

A little revolution is a good thing.