Politics$$$ like religion$$$ hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans$$$ and must be that of every free state.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction$$$ to wit: by consolidation of power first$$$ and then corruption$$$ its necessary consequence.

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.

[A] lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

If you want something you've never had$$$ you must be willing to do something you've never done.

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

I am mortified to be told that$$$ in the United States of America$$$ the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry$$$ and of criminal inquiry too.

Health$$$ learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience$$$ private esteem and public honour.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.