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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.

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

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.

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.

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].

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.

The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.

Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.

The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

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.

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

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]

Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

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.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.

I believe in good luck, and the harder I work and the more I believe in myself, the luckier I get.

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.

The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

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