The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.
He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.
Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.
I am sure that in estimating every man’s value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.
If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.
We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.
I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.
By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.
In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these, for the most part, must prevail over the other for a longer or shorter time.
The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.
Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.
For if one link in nature’s chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.
By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.
Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone.
We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.
I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.
The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.
I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude.