It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility.
The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Everything yields to diligence.
If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.
When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.
The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author.
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act if all the world were looking at you, and act accordingly.
Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.