It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.

The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.

If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.

The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.