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Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

I own I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Those who bear equally the burdens of government should equally participate in the benefits.

Thomas Jefferson's Decalogue of Canons VII. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing. I now deny their power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender. I know that to pay all proper expenses within the year would, in case of war, be hard on us. But not so hard as ten wars instead of one. For wars could be reduced in that proportion; besides that the State governments would be free to lend their credit in borrowing quotas.

Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to, convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.