But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced into the administration of them in every function to which they are sufficient; they will err sometimes and accidentally, but never designedly, and with a systematic and persevering purpose of overthrowing the free principles of the government.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services.

Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.