"Reason, and not habit, is the governor of a people."

"The greatest service an individual can render a country, is to support its freedom, and to expose its enemies."

"Kings succeed each other, not as rationals, but as animals. It signifies not what their mental or moral characters are."

"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."

"The independence of America, considered merely as a commercial object, is an object of no inconsiderable magnitude."