"I want you to put Aaron Burr in jail."
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When people fear the government, there is tyranny."
"monied corporations which dare already to challenge our Government to a trial of strength."
"If the people know the truth, they will not make a mistake."
"In his first Inaugural Address, Thomas Jefferson said that the sum of good government was one which shall restrain men from injuring one another and shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their o..."
"if the people know the truth, they will never make a mistake."
"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
"Knowledge is power. . . . If a nation expects to be ignorant--and free--in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in the State of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
"I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution; I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government . . . , I mean an additio..."
"There does not exist an engine so corruptive of the Government and so demoralizing of the Nation as a public debt. It will bring on us more ruin at home than all the enemies from abroad against whom t..."
"Then I say the earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right."