Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. The Europeans value themselves on having subdued the horse to the uses of man; but I doubt whether we have not lost more than we have gained, by the use of this animal.
Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.
Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.
We figure great careers aren’t made. They’re experienced.
An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.
The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much.
I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson President. He is the most unfit man I know for such a place.
One generation cannot bind another.
I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.
Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all – and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom.
The smell rewards the care.
Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.
A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.
The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.
When the people are afraid of the government, that’s tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that’s liberty.
We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.
Where everyman is participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year but everyday, he will let the heart be torn out of his body sooner than his power be wrested from him by a Caesar or a Bonaparte.