Were we directed from Washington when to sow, & when to reap, we should soon want bread.
Thomas Jefferson
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education
It was more in our spirit to let things come to rights by the plain dictates of common sense than by the practice of any artifices.
I have great hope that some patriotic spirit will, at a favorable moment, call (up the law for religious freedom) and make it the keystone of the arch of our government
The merchant has no country
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.
Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it as earned.
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. Protection from casual embarrassments, however, may sometimes be seasonably interposed.
We seldom report of having eaten too little.
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.
In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
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