"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."

"The only security a free people can have for the faithful observance of their constitution and laws, is to be found in a right of taxation."

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government."

"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none."