Quotes

When angry, count ten before you speak. If very angry, a hundred.

Information is the currency of democracy.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God.

The first object of my heart is my own country. This solitary republic of the world is the only monument of human rights, and the sole repository of the sacred fire of freedom.

There isn't a sprig of grass uninteresting to me.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their creator, with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.

I am a real Christian [...] a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus, very different from the Platonists, who call me infidel.