Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
no people can be both ignorant and free.
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.
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...
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.
A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
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...
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Nothing is more likely than that [the] enumeration of powers is defective. This is the ordinary case of all human works. Let us then go on perfecting it by adding by way of amendment to the Constituti...
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of...
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyra...