“The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.”

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

I cannot live without books.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none

On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.

Unexpressed feelings reside in music that does not have lyrics, but feelings in rhythm!

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

Beauty without expression is boring.

I don’t really believe in any fashion rules. I think fashion is a form of self-expression, wear whatever you want.

I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

Lightning is a pure expression of firebending without aggression.