I have great hope that some patriotic spirit will, at a favorable moment, call (up the law for religious freedom) and make it the keystone of the arch of our government.

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at...

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at...

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of...

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of...

The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of...

The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of...

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried

Never spend your money before you have it.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of...

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of...

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing...

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing...

We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy,...

We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy,...

I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be...

I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be...

I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple, applying all the possible savings of...

I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple, applying all the possible savings of...

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more...

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more...

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed...

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed...

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity...

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity...

Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.

Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and...

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and...

Tranquility is the old man's milk

Tranquility is the old man's milk

Rebecca was a busy liar in her distinguished old age, reinventing her past for gullible...

Rebecca was a busy liar in her distinguished old age, reinventing her past for gullible...

Wherever there is power there is age.

Wherever there is power there is age.

Tranquility is the old mans milk

Tranquility is the old mans milk