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We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.
The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.
Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services.
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.
Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.
I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.
The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.
Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.
Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman.
music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.
The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.
Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.
Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.
I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.
I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.
Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.
I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.
Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.
All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.
A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.
The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.
The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.
If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.
The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.
The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.
Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.
New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.
The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.
A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.
Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.