The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Votes: 35
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. Votes: 13
Power is not alluring to pure minds. Votes: 0
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. Votes: 0
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. Votes: 0
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. Votes: 0
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. Votes: 0
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. Votes: 0
The people will not understand the importance of the Second Amendment until it is too late. Votes: 0
Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity Votes: 0
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Votes: 0
Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman. Votes: 0
A strong body makes the mind strong. Votes: 0
The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust. Votes: 0
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. Votes: 0
Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society. Votes: 0
The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy]. Votes: 0
Delay is preferable to error. Votes: 0
Everything yields to diligence. Votes: 0
Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health. Votes: 0
All men are created equal. Votes: 0
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place. Votes: 0
Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights. Votes: 0
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights Votes: 0
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. Votes: 0
I believe in good luck, and the harder I work and the more I believe in myself, the luckier I get. Votes: 0
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. Votes: 0
One man with courage is a majority. Votes: 0
A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. Votes: 0
never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased Votes: 0
Resisting tyranny is obeying God Votes: 0
I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender. Votes: 0
A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia] Votes: 0
The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all. Votes: 0
All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Votes: 0
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church. Votes: 0
Delay is preferable to error Votes: 0
The dead should not rule the living. Votes: 0
The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time. Votes: 0
I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary. Votes: 0
The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery. Votes: 0
Taste cannot be controlled by law. Votes: 0
A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither. Votes: 0
Tranquility is the old man's milk. Votes: 0
Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety. Votes: 0
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best. Votes: 0
I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. Votes: 0
I cannot live without books. Votes: 0
A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion. Votes: 0
A little rebellion is a good thing. Votes: 0
A little revolution is a good thing. Votes: 0
All authority belongs to the people. Votes: 0
All power is inherent in the people. Votes: 0
Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say. Votes: 0
But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. Votes: 0
Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house. Votes: 0
Dependence leads to subservience. Votes: 0
Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.... Votes: 0
Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. Votes: 0
Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted. Votes: 0
Force cannot give right. Votes: 0
Freedom, the first-born of science. Votes: 0
Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people. Votes: 0
Health is worth more than learning. Votes: 0
Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality. Votes: 0
I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones. Votes: 0
I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science. Votes: 0
I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet. Votes: 0
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves. Votes: 0
I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me. Votes: 0
I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian. Votes: 0
If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence. Votes: 0
If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over. Votes: 0
In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object. Votes: 0
Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people. Votes: 0
It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself. Votes: 0
Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges. Votes: 0
Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment. Votes: 0
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. Votes: 0
Light and liberty go together. Votes: 0
Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice. Votes: 0
Merchants have no country. Votes: 0
Ministers and merchants love nobody. Votes: 0
music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui. Votes: 0
My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them. Votes: 0
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight. Votes: 0
Never use one word when two will do. Votes: 0
New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature. Votes: 0
No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six. Votes: 0
No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation. Votes: 0
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. Votes: 0
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Votes: 0
One generation cannot bind another. Votes: 0
Our bills shall not be killed. Votes: 0
Our people shall be free Votes: 0
Peace is our passion. Votes: 0
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man. Votes: 0
Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too. Votes: 0
The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I. Votes: 0
The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night. Votes: 0
The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country. Votes: 0
The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow. Votes: 0
The dead should not rule the living Votes: 0
The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates. Votes: 0
The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it. Votes: 0
The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers. Votes: 0
The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people. Votes: 0
The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties. Votes: 0
The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception. Votes: 0
The merchant has no country . Votes: 0
The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing. Votes: 0
The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue. Votes: 0
The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine. Votes: 0
The smell rewards the care. Votes: 0
The sun - my almighty physician. Votes: 0
The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. Votes: 0
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety. Votes: 0
There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute. Votes: 0
This is the fourth... Votes: 0
Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits. Votes: 0
Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be. Votes: 0
To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power. Votes: 0
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it. Votes: 0
We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities. Votes: 0
We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear. Votes: 0
When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality. Votes: 0
When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality. Votes: 0
Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself. Votes: 0
Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself. Votes: 0
Without virtue, happiness cannot be. Votes: 0