A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save on-half the wars of the world.

It is neither wealth nor splendour, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Most bad government has grown out of too much government.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because if there be one, He must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfold fear.

The government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

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

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous seas of liberty.

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

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, a hundred.