"I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as muc…"

"Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights …"

"True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nat…"

"An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas, and the truth of prophecy, has decided my ca…"

"I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a la…"

"If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the Romish clergy."

"Pronounce him one of the first men of his age, and you have yet not done him justice. Try him by that test to which h…"

"Born and educated in the highest order of feudal Nobility, under the most absolute Monarchy of Europe, in possession …"

"When the principle of hereditary dominion shall be extinguished in all the institutions of France; when government sh…"

"Lafayette avoided the factions jealous of Washington because he recognized that Washington was the Revolution and tha…"