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- Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,…
- Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
- Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
- Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest…
- Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty…
- What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not…
- The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to…
- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set…
- The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts…
- Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a…
- No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education…
- The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.
- Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural…
- I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely…
- The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time…
- The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of…
- To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to…
- The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More…
- If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of…
- My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on…
- But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who…
- Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of…
- To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare…
- By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of…
- It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who…
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