I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions...but I know also that laws and constitutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind...

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.

Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads.

Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

A government which can be felt; a government of energy. God send that our country may never have a government, which it can feel.