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| Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. | | Action; Government; Politics | |
| Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. | | Uncategorized | |
| Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism | | Uncategorized | |
| Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. | | Uncategorized | |
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| I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment | | Politics; Trade | |
| I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them. | | Uncategorized | |
| I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers. | | Uncategorized | |
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| I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery | | Uncategorized | |
| I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet. | | Uncategorized | |
| I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power | | Uncategorized | |
| I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which all other knowledge rests. | | Uncategorized | |
| I don't think it's a match-up problem. We have two of the best players around. We just didn't execute well enough offensively. | | Uncategorized | |
| I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to "Anarchy" or "Despotism" | | America and Americans | |
| I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves; and that, if this c | | Government; Nations | |
| I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an "Honest Man." | | Uncategorized | |
| I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares | | Animals; Husbands | |
| I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward. | | Patriotism | |
| I never mean (unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it) to possess another slave by purchase; it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by slow, sure, and imperceptib | | Uncategorized | |
