In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.
Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.
Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their opposites, peace, economy, and riddance of public debt, believing that these were the high road to public as well as private prosperity and happiness.
Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.
We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.
I like to see the people awake and alert.
Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy.
Tranquility is the old man’s milk.
Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
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It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.
When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.
In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.
Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and their result too fallacious to satisfy the mind. It is probably an age too soon to propose the establishment of a system.
I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.