Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety and with the least possible expense. When these things are accompl...
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.
The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.
Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace
The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities a...
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation none.
That government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves.
France freed from that monster Bonaparte must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other...
All authority belongs to the people.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
The dead should not rule the living.
The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.