"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."

"I had rather be in my bed than up in the Senate."

"It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the whole people."

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."

"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none."