With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.

It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.