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" Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. "

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" Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. "

" While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. "

" The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. "

" Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. "

" The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. "

" Genius is sorrow's child. "

" Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. "

" Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. "

" Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. "

" The happiness of society is the end of government. "

" There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. "

" A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. "

" Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. "

" Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. "

" The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. "

" A government of laws, and not of men. "

" In politics the middle way is none at all. "

" Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. "

" The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals. "

" Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. "

" I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate. "

" All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. "

" Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. "

" Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. "

" I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman. "

" As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. "

" Fear is the foundation of most governments. "

" Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. "

" My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. "

" I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case. "