Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven.

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

I do most anxiously wish to see the highest degrees of education given to the higher degrees of genius and to all degrees of it, so much as may enable them to read and understand what is going on in the world and to keep their part of it going on right; for nothing can keep it right but their own vigilant and distrustful superintendence.

never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased

Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

Government governed least is government governed best.