There is nothing so powerful as truth – and often nothing so strange.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
The people’s government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people.January 1830
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country, my God & Truth. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.
When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.
I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets she needs none. There she is. Behold her and judge for yourselves.
I was born an American I live an American I shall die an American.
Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens.
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths but usually quarrel among themselves.
Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of civilization.
Most good lawyers live well work hard and die poor.
Liberty and Union now and for ever one and inseparable!
What is valuable is not new and what is new is not valuable.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide and suicide is confession.
Liberty and Union now and forever one and inseparable.
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
The people’s government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.