The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.

Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.

The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.

My country is wherever liberty lives.

In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.