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

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

"The commerce of slaves in the West Indies, I am informed, is an open market of human flesh, where the unhappy victims are daily exposed to the highest bidder, and where the most sacred ties of nature …"

"The best government is that which governs least."