Religion flourishes in greater purity without than with the aid of Government.
The rights of persons and the rights of property are the objects for the...
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens who...
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness...
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human...
The diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property...
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must...
The essence of Government is power and power lodged as it must be in human...
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power and it is from them...
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to...
War should only be declared by the authority of the people whose toils and...
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it...
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed as every past one...
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do you will have...
If men were angels no government would be necessary.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own...
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the...
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own...
Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education...
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people....
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey at a mild...
A well regulated militia composed of the body of the people trained in arms...
It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice let us resolve to choose wisely.
