Nature, when she created man, gave him freedom.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.
The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
No man’s knowledge can go beyond his experience.
Knowledge, when it is given an upper hand, is worse than ignorance.
Our deeds determine us, much as we determine our deeds.
All men are liable to error, and most men are, in many points, by passion and interest, under temptation to it.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appears so plainly in all the works of creation.
To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
All wealth is the product of labor.
Our labor is our property, and if not stolen from us by the government, it would be ours.
As people with money acquire power, those with power become addicted to wealth.
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.
Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God.
Wherever law ends, tyranny begins.
Idleness is the burial of a living man.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
To prejudge other men’s notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs… has been… not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but… who should have it.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
He that will with patience hear, and can think, will seldom be mistaken.
Where there is no property there is no injustice.
Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in error and another to put him in possession of the truth.
To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands, for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.
Knowledge, when it is given an upper hand, is worse than ignorance.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
Be First to Comment