I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god.