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Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.
Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.
The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.
When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.
The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.
I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.
Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.
New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.
The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased
Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.
When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.
Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.
I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet.
But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.
Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].
The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.
The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.
In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.
The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.
The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.
To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.
A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.
Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.