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- Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
- Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
- All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to…
- Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
- Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
- Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
- Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more…
- If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It…
- The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
- ...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them
- Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
- I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or…
- I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.
- We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore…
- If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations…
- Thomas Jefferson asked himself “In what country on earth would you rather live ” He first answered “Certainly in my own where are all my…
- A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The…
- Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all…
- ...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.
- Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the…
- When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to…
- [All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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