If anybody thinks that kings, nobles, priests are good conservators of the public happiness, send him (to Europe) |
If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence |
If government have a right of demanding ad libitum and of taxing us themselves to the full amount of their demand if we do not comply with it, this would leave us without anything we can call property |
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions. |
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it |
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. |
If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education |
If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism |
If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism |
If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism |
If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else |
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? |
If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form let them stand undisturbed as monuments to the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it |
If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest |
If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest |