“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.”

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.

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.

Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.

Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects … what they thus lost they have never got back.

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

Government’s great contribution to human wisdom is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.