The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. |
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. |
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. |
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. |
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. |
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. |
I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad. |
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest. |
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. |
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. |
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. |
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. |
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. |
We never repent of having eaten too little. |
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. |
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. |
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. |
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. |
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. |
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. |