"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."

"Promote then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge."

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few."

"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon."

"The liberties of a nation can be sure only when there is a firm conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God."