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 man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity in the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
