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If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man
Opinion, and the just maintenance of it, shall never be a crime in my view.
The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.
He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world.
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.
Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.
All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.
Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.
I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind
We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists
Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?
Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.
We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own.
Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.
Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.
Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.
I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.
Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.
The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.
I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much
Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.
Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.
We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.
We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.
Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.