"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me."

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them."

"The only security against error is the freedom of inquiry."

"I am not for transferring all the powers of the States to the General Government, and all those of that government to the Executive branch."

"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we are about to present to the world, of the practicability of a decent and republican government, and of maintaining it in…"