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- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former…
- There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.
- I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful…
- We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober sense of our…
- It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.
- Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond…
- To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and…
- A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness. If we…
- Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom…
- I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the…
- Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of the integrity of…
- If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap…
- Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural…
- In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these,…
- Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from…
- To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the present day, and…
- War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of…
- We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses…
- With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.
- I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country. That wisdom has…
- [T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never to see all…
- Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never…
- I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect…
- The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow)…
- Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a…
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