One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.

You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.

People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

Government has no Right to hurt a hair of the head of an Atheist, for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.