Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

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

Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.