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The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.
I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.
We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists
Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.
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.
Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?
Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.
My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind
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.
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.
Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.
The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.
Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.
Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.
Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.
Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.
I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.
I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.
I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.
We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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.
There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.
All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!.
I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.
The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.
With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.
The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.
The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.
The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.
The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.
We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.
A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.
May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.
We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.
I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.