“This is the fourth?

“It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.”

“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.”

“Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.”

“Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects. But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.” 

“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”

“Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred”

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”

“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”

“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.”

“If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.”

“I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.”

“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”

“I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money, are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies.”

“The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.”