If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spi...
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fir...
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games...
The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
For God's sake let us freely hear both sides!
The sun - my almighty physician.
I never did or countenanced in public life a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith having never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.
The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separat...
Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.
To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to h...
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 may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
The inquisition of public opinion overwhelms in practice the freedom asserted by the laws in theory.