"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."

"If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest."

"Power is not alluring to pure minds."

"The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses."

"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."

"The small landholders are the most precious part of a state."

"The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it."

"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will."

"All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not."

"No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it."

"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."

"I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor."

"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind."

"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all."

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."

"Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace."

"Whenever there is 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 labour and live on. If, for the encouragement of industry we allow it to be appropriated, we must take care that other employment be furnished to those excluded from the appropriation. If we do not the fundamental right to labour the earth returns to the unemployed."

"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."

"There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world."

"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."

"As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also."

"In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty."

"I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another."

"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"

"If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy."

"To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education."

"History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is."

"I steer my bark with hope in my heart leaving fear astern."

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important."

"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden."

"No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America."

"The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."

"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."

"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast."

"To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others."

"It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice."

"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching."

"Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it."

"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."

"When describing the University of Virginia: Here, We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it."

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

"The poor who have neither property, friends, nor strength to labor are boarded in the houses of good farmers, to whom a stipulated sum is annually paid. To those who are able to help themselves a little or have friends from whom they derive some succor, inadequate however to their full maintenance, supplementary aids are given which enable them to live comfortably in their own houses or in the houses of their friends. Vagabonds without visible property or vocation, are placed in work houses, where they are well clothed, fed, lodged, and made to labor."

"Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever."

"One man with courage is a majority."

"Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take."

"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."

"It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read."

"I hope we shall ... crush in it's birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country."