The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.

Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.

Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.