The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Read Summary
Never spend your money before you have earned it. Read Summary
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. Read Summary
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. Read Summary
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. Read Summary
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. Read Summary
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. Read Summary
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Read Summary
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. Read Summary
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. Read Summary
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. Read Summary
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. Read Summary
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Read Summary
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. Read Summary
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. Read Summary
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. Read Summary
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. Read Summary
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. Read Summary