"The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us."

"I am not a Federalist, because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was ca…"

"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me."

"I cannot live without books."