"There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession"

"If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest"

"The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil."

"God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it."

"There is nothing so powerful as truth - "and "often nothing so strange."

"Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization."

"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power."

"There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters"

"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."