"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretence of taking care of them."

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."

"To preserve the freedom of the human mind then, and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the…"

"I am not for transferring all the powers of the States to the General Government, and all those of that government to the Executive branch."