"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."

"The people are the only censors of their governors."

"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories."

"History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is."

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."