Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.
Public offices were not made for private convenience.
I’d rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.
At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about “a public debt being a public blessing”; that the stock representing it was a creation of active capital for the aliment of commerce, manufactures and agriculture. This paradox was well adapted to the minds of believers in dreams.
I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property.
We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.
The government you elect is the government you deserve.
Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.
A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.
Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.
Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.
Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.
That government that governs least governs best.
I like my coffee like I like my women.
No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.
The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.