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| I have the honor to be, your Excellency's most obedient humble servant | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. | | Uncategorized | |
| I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing... | | Uncategorized | |
| I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be. | | Power; Wisdom | |
| I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our Government to trial, and bid defiance to the laws of our country | | Uncategorized | |
| I join you, therefore, in sincere congratulations that this den of the priesthood is at length broken up, and that a Protestant Popedom is no longer to disgrace the American history and character | | America and Americans | |
| I know it will give great offense to the clergy, but the advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from them | | Uncategorized | |
| I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their | | Uncategorized | |
| I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take power from them, but to inform them by education. | | Uncategorized | |
| I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. | | Future; History; Past | |
| I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly | | People; Power; Taxation | |
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| I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor | | Medicine | |
| I must ever believe that religion substantially good which produces an honest life, and we have been authorized by One whom you and I equally respect, to judge of the tree by its fruit | | Uncategorized | |
| I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. | | Uncategorized | |
| I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man | | Faith; Life; Morality | |
| I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all. | | Uncategorized | |
| I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives... | | Religion | |
| I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others. | | Uncategorized | |
| I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. | | Uncategorized | |
