We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Man must go back to nature for information.

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

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

Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the body worse than it found it. Were not this the case, and could money be made of paper at pleasure, every sovereign in Europe would be as rich as he pleased. But the truth is, that it is a bubble and the attempt vanity. Nature has provided the proper materials for money: gold and silver, and any attempt of ours to rival her is ridiculous.