No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.

It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.

A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become convinced, that it is infinitely wiser and safer, to form a constitution of our own in a cool deliberate manner, while we have it in our power, than to trust such an interesting event to time and chance.

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.

Titles do not count with posterity.