Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.
Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.
If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn’t hesitate to choose the latter.
Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.
Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.
The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers.
Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.
We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists.
It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.
One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.
All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.
For Heaven’s sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum.
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles.
An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.
Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.
The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins.