The
democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are
willing to work and give to those who would not.
..
That
government is best which governs the least, because its people
discipline themselves.
.
If
the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise
in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose
trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the
hour?
.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...They
are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
.
I have recently been examining all the known
superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular
superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike
founded on fables and mythology.
.
Experience
hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those
entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted
it into tyranny.
.
Merchants
have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so
strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
.
Nothing
can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving
his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental
attitude.
.
Mr. Thomas Jefferson
