“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”
Friendship“A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.”
Nature“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”
Friendship“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.”
Fear“Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.”
Experience“For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.”
Best“There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.”
Men“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.”
Religion“An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.”
Men“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
Motivational“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Time“Power is not alluring to pure minds.”
Power“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
Best“The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.”
Power“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
Cool“The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.”
Government“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.”
Fear“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.”
Government“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?”
Friendship“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.”
Knowledge“It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.”
War“The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.”
Inspirational