Our Ancestors ... Were Laborers, Not Lawyers.

I Acknowledge That Such A Debt [of Service To My Fellow-citizens] Exists, That A Tour Of Duty In Whatever Line He Can Be Most Useful To His Country, Is Due From Every Individual. It Is Not Easy Perhaps To Say Of What Length Exactly That Tour Should Be, But We May Safely Say Of What Length It Should Not Be. Not Of Our Whole Life, For Instance, For That Would Be To Be Born A Slave-not Even Of A Very Large Portion Of It.

It Is Better To Have No Ideas Than False Ones.

If Virtuous, The Government Need Not Fear The Fair Operation Of Attack And Defense. Nature Has Given To Man No Other Means Of Sifting The Truth, Either In Religion, Law, Or Politics.

Newspapers . . . Serve As Chimnies To Carry Off Noxious Vapors And Smoke.

I Hope We Shall . . . Crush In [its] Birth The Aristocracy Of Our Monied Corporations.