I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.

What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.

History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.

The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.