“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.

The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?

These are the times that try men’s souls.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Government is best which governs least.

From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.

When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.

You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.

Character is simply habit long continued.

An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can’t or don’t do in my normal everyday life.

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.