From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.
Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience.
The soil is the gift of God to the living.
We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body.
I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught but I hold in the most profound detestation and execration the corruptions of it which have been invented...
The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.
From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs.
The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals.
Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement.
It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.
The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.
One had rather have no opinion than a false one.
Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.
Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.
The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.
Government governed least is government governed best.
When the heart is right, the feet are swift.
Most men die at age 25, but aren’t buried until 70.
The First Amendment has created a wall of separation between the church and the State. But that wall is one directional. It is to keep the government from running the Church. But it is not to keep Christian principles out of the government.