Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.

To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Take things always by their smooth handle.

If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none.

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none.

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.

How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.

We never repent of having eat too little.