The government that governs least, governs best.
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.
If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Educate and inform the whole mass of people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
We are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead.
The happiness and prosperity of our citizens is the only legitimate object of government.
I am an advocate for animal rights – as long as we’re not talking about germs.
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.
Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
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