I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.

Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.

A strong body makes the mind strong.

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

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.