A taste for literature and a business turn, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.

Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

Power in any Form . . ., when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence, is dangerous.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror!

Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

Politics are a labyrinth without a clue.

It is weakness rather than wickedness that renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

My God, This is a revolution! We have to offend someone!

Power must never be trusted without a check.

Ideology is the science of idiots.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.