The Creator would indeed have been a bungling artist had he intended man for a social animal without planting in him social dispositions.

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain...

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain...

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

The freedom of the press is on of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can...

The freedom of the press is on of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can...

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have

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

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

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is...

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is...

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a...

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a...

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his...

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his...

My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it...

My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it...

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by...

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by...

If government have a right of demanding ad libitum and of taxing us themselves to...

If government have a right of demanding ad libitum and of taxing us themselves to...

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another,...

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another,...

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by...

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by...

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure...

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure...

Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most...

Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most...

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to...

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to...