Sayings and Quotes

Never spend your money before you have it.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Determine never to be idle…It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Delay is preferable to error.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.

Health is worth more than learning.

A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

One man with courage is a majority.

Advertisements… contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

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

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

The earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.