I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to food. I don't know how to relax that's my problem.
One loves to possess arms though they hope never to have occasion for them.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power and teach us that the less we...
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give...
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that...
The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a...
No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one...
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
So confident am I in the intentions as well as wisdom of the government...
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always...
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain...
History in general only informs us of what bad government is.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of...
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions...
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without...
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open...
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government...
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too...
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people...
Whenever the people are well-informed they can be trusted with their own...
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations...
The good opinion of mankind like the lever of Archimedes with the given...
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of...
I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least good or bad.
In truth politeness is artificial good humor it covers the natural want of...
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first...
A wise and frugal Government which shall restrain men from injuring one...
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
If God is just I tremble for my country.
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of...
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice...
Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances...
