"I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere."

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretence of taking care of them."

"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

"The earth belongs in usufruct to the living; that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it."

"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 …"