Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
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...
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...
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
Advertisements contain the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitudefrom achieving his goal.Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.
The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.
The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.
If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belie...
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
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.
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.
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.
It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice