“When the government fears the people, there is freedom. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
- “I cannot live without books.”
- “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
- “I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”
- “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
- “When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.”
- “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
- “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.”
- “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
- “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”
- “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
- “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
- “It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
- “Never spend your money before you have earned it.”
- “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
- “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
- “The government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.”
- “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations—entangling alliances with none.”
- “He who permits himself to tell a lie once finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual.”
- “Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.”
- “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”