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

A government of our own is our natural right

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.