If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.

The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to everyone exactly the functions in which he is competent ... It is by dividing and subdividing these Republics from the great national one down through all its subordinations until it ends in the administration of everyman's farm by himself, by placing under everyone what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best.

No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.