politics Quotes

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.