President

Fakta adalah hal yang keras kepala.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

Ketakutan adalah fondasi dari kebanyakan pemerintah.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

Properti adalah hak asasi manusia yang nyata seperti kebebasan.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

A government of laws, and not of men.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Dalam politik, jalan tengah tidak ada sama sekali.

Saya harus mempelajari politik dan perang agar anak saya punya kebebasan untuk mempelajari matematika dan filsafat.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.