The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

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

A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.