If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.
Nothing can stop the person with the right mental attitude from achieving their goal; nothing on earth can help the person with the wrong mental attitude.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Health is worth more than learning.
The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.
I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing.
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.
Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.
A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.
Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.