"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."

"Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion."

"New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature."

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."

"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."

"A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character."

"Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry."

"When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred."

"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."

"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God."

"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."

"A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit."

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."

"If God is just, I tremble for my country."

"Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia."

"He [Weishaupt] says, no one ever laid a surer foundation for liberty than our grand master, Jesus of Nazareth."

"Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations."

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."

"The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to."

"No people who are ignorant can be truly free."

"Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted."

"Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society."

"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."

"Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people."

"History is philosophy teaching by examples."

"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion."

"Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident."

"For God's sake let us freely hear both sides!"

"I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect."

"The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public and more trouble to me than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be Does he use ardent spirits?"

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."

"Of all calamities this is the greatest."

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time."

"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."

"Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds."

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."

"A wise and frugal Government, which shall retrain 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."

"We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed."

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

"The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."

"The sun - my almighty physician."

"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."

"It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong."

"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."

"Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God if He ever had a chosen people whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue."