"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is to their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it requires no very high degree of educat…"

"The greatest danger to American freedom is a highly centralized government."

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."

"The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave."