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I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.
No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.
What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.
If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter
While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage
The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.
They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.
I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.
Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.
The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?
The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.
Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends
Not for ourselves alone, but for all humanity... Let us hasten to find the path that leads to liberty, safety, and peace for everyone.
If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.
While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.
Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?
The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins.
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.
Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.
I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.
He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.
An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.
I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God
There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.
The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.
A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free.
Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.
It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.
Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.
Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.
The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom.
The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.
This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.
By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.
My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.
I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.
There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.