Resisting tyranny is obeying God

We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.