Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.
An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.
A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.
Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies
Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts.
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.
Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health
The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.
[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.
Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.
The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.
If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.
I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.
By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.
The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.
It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.
The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.
Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.
Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.
One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.
No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.
Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.
It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice
War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.
Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.
The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.
The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.