Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.

I firmly believe in luck. And I noticed: the more I work, the luckier I become.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

I cannot live without books.