When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.