Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.
Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of...
Be it remembered, that liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we have not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us at the expense of their...
Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.
If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.
Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
Swim or sink live or die survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of y...
Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of ye...
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the...
It may amuse you to hear a Story. A few days ago, in Company with Dr Zubly, somebody said, there was nobody on our side but the Almighty. The Dr. who is a Native of Switzerland, and speaks but broken...