Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.