The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.
Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision.
Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends.
My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind.
Health is the requisite after morality.
Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.
We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better.
We might have been a free and great people together.
The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.
I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.
I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.
The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.
It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.
The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ.
What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and power into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France, or of the aristocrats of a Venetian senate.
The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause, the banking system.
The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.
The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.
We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self – government.