An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.