It may amuse you to hear a Story. A few days ago, in Company with Dr Zubly, somebody said, there was nobody on our side but the Almighty. The Dr. who is a Native of Switzerland, and speaks but broken English, quickly replied ‘Dat is enough.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.
The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle.
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.
Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.
The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.
Thanks to God that he gave me stubborness when I know I am right.
My God! This is a revolution! We have to offend someone!
Here, every private person is authorized to arm himself, and on the strength of this authority, I do not deny the inhabitants had a right to arm themselves at that time, for their defense, not for offense...
But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.
Ideology is the science of idiots.