"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

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

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

"The best government is that which governs least."

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."