Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king.

Give the vote to the people who have no property, and they will sell them to the rich, who will be able to buy them.

Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.

If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.

In adopting the republican form of government, I not only took it as a man does his wife, for better, for worse, but, what few men do with their wives, I took it knowing all its bad qualities.

Each state enjoys sovereign power.

The trial of Zenger in 1735 was the germ of American freedom, the morning star of that liberty which subsequently revolutionized America.

They (the French) have taken genius instead of reason for their guide, adopted experiment instead of experience, and wander in the dark because they prefer lightning to light.

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.

Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.

If there is a credo in practical medicine, it is that the important thing is to be sensible.

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. I don't like to pretend to be polite. What you see is what you get.

The greatest discrimination in the world now is against poor people.

I didn't know children's songs could be this deadly.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves.