God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should not intermeddle with the particular dogmas in which all religions differ, and which are totally unconnected with morality.

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.