• Government and Politics

  Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part.

  4.2 · 58 votes · 193 reads

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• Feelings

  He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

  5.0 · 36 votes · 135 reads

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• Society

  He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

  3.2 · 63 votes · 181 reads

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• Nature

  Human nature is not of itself vicious.

  4.9 · 14 votes · 162 reads

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• Society

  I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

  3.9 · 41 votes · 16 reads

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• Various

  It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

  3.7 · 35 votes · 53 reads

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• Defects

  It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not bel

  3.3 · 21 votes · 83 reads

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• Virtues

  It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

  3.1 · 17 votes · 14 reads

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• Various

  Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

  4.6 · 18 votes · 54 reads

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• Various

  My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

  5.0 · 14 votes · 111 reads

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• Society

  My own mind is my own church.

  4.7 · 53 votes · 108 reads

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• Society

  Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS - our inferior one varies w

  3.1 · 31 votes · 125 reads

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• Virtues

  Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.

  4.2 · 11 votes · 54 reads

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• Government and Politics

  Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

  4.9 · 32 votes · 96 reads

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• Society

  The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

  3.1 · 52 votes · 130 reads

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• Various

  The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

  4.4 · 52 votes · 69 reads

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• Society

  These are the times that try men's souls.

  4.7 · 23 votes · 190 reads

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• Society

  Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

  3.8 · 61 votes · 138 reads

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• Government and Politics

  To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

  4.1 · 50 votes · 170 reads

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• Society

  We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

  3.1 · 38 votes · 47 reads

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• Society

  Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than th

  4.8 · 9 votes · 149 reads

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What they wrote about

• Religion5 of their quotes
• Freedom3 of their quotes
• Moderation2 of their quotes
• Character2 of their quotes
• Belief1 of their quote
• Democracy1 of their quote