Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
From Thomas Jefferson
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Delay is preferable to error.
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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