If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.
If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective, will, in fact, be for life, and that will soon degenerate into an inheritance.
We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.
A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean.
I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.
Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.
For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.
The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.
Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.
Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.
We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .
All men are created equal.
All we can do is to make the best of our friends, love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way what is bad.
No instance exists of a person’s writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.
The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.
Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.
Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity.