“Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.”
“A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean.”
“Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.”
“Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.”
“That government that governs least governs best.”
“Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.”
“Every man has two countries: his own and France.”
“The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.”
“The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.”
“Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act if all the world were looking at you, and act accordingly.”
“My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!”
“And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”
“I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.”
“The First Amendment has created a wall of separation between the church and the State. But that wall is one directional. It is to keep the government from running the Church. But it is not to keep Christian principles out of the government.”
“I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.”
“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.”
“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.”
“Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.”
“The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights.”
“Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all – and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom.”
“Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.”
“While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.”
“I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.”
“The colleges of Edinburgh and Geneva as seminaries of science, are considered as the two eyes of Europe. While Great Britain and America give the preference to the former, all other countries give it to the latter.”
“Delay is preferable to error.”
“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.”
“All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.”
“I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much.”
“I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.”
“A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.”
“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.”
“The federal government is our servant, not our master.”
“A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.”
“The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.”
“The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being.”
“No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage.”
“Truth between candid minds can never do harm.”
“Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.”
“Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.”
“All through your life, you’ll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are both right, then choose the one that will make you feel the best about it at the end of the day.”
“Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.”
“I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude.”
“I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.”
“The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.”
“The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion.”
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.”
“The Christian god is a being of terrific character – cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.”
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