Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.
The worst day in a man’s life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.
I believe in both a creative and personal God, a divinely ordered universe, that man has an innate moral sense, and that Jesus was a great moral teacher, perhaps the greatest the world has witnessed.
The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful.
I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures?
The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts.
Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.
There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.
Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.
Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.
Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.
Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts.
All through your life, you’ll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are both right, then choose the one that will make you feel the best about it at the end of the day.
Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.