Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious.

That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. 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--That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such Principles and and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. . . .

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

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 those attending too small a degree of it.

It behoves 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.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.