When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
Delay is preferable to error.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.