I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.
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.
Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.
There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.
The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.
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.
If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman’s.
I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.
I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.
And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them.
Every man has two countries: his own and France.
If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.
Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful.