This is my destiny — I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can and can't do!

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

All wealth is the product of labor.

I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.

Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.