Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
No people who are ignorant can be truly free.
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
For God's sake let us freely hear both sides!
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with...
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human...
A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Question with boldness even the existence of aGod; because, if there be one, he must more approve ofthe homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both. We are destined to be a barrier against the returns o...
How much pain they have cost us the evils which have never happened.
The sun - my almighty physician.