top of page
.png){kind=small}
All Quotes Collection
"Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy."
52
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."
32
"Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants."
160
"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
41
"It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs."
17
"When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people."
19
"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."
65
"Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits."
13
"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."
67
"I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business."
47
"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely."
30
"What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man."
16
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
72
"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."
29
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
14
"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."
16
"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts."
209
"Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety."
55
bottom of page