"I deem no government safe which is..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty.”

“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”

“"It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the power of taking from them the trial by jury in civil cases, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce, the habeas corpus laws, and of yoking them with a standing army. This is a degeneracy in the principles of liberty... which I [would not have expected for at least] four centuries."”

“We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems”

“Let the country be small, and the inhabitants few.”

“The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.”

“To you your father should be as a god.”

“Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.”

“In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.”