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

"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

"The natural right of a man to impart his ideas to others is as sacred as his right to think at all."

"Delay is preferable to error."

"The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family."