It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for the honor and happiness of its character, I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools, and can scarcely avoid disgust at those who are thus imposed upon.

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Government is best which governs least

A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve

Prejudice will fall in a combat with interest.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.