Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.
The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united as to everything respecting foreign nations. Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only.
The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind.
I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.
A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.
Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.
They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.
I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.
Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.
History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.
The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man.
In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.