Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

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.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.