For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions.

never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.