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" Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence. "

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" The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself. "

" Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations. "

" The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries. "

" A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. "

" Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. "

" Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic. "

" In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. "

" Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. "

" I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. "

" To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. "

" War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. "

" Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. "

" It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. "

" A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. "

" Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. "

" Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. "

" What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? "

" As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. "

" Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. "

" What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? "

" By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt. "

" And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. "

" The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. "

" The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. "

" As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. "

" If men were angels, no government would be necessary. "

" The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. "

" Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense. "

" Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages. "

" The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. "