Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a declared assent to all of their interested absurdities. My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest.

If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase.

I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too.

The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.