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Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.
Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.
With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.
Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.
The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.
It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.
Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.
Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.
It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.
Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.
The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist.
Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.
There is a fulness of time when men should go, and not occupy too long the ground to which others have a right to advance.
A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.
The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.
The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being
Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.
I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson President. He is the most unfit man I know for such a place.
Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.
I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.
For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.
For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum.
Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.
People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.
The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.
The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.
Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.
Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.
All we can do is to make the best of our friends, love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way what is bad.
The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.
I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.
How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!