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- The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening…
- As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading…
- I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.
- Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy…
- The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
- The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more…
- From the dissensions among Sects themselves arise necessarily a right of choosing and necessity of deliberating to which we will conform. But if we choose…
- France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties…
- The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion of this war we shall…
- We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
- If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become…
- I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
- 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…
- Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental…
- Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
- Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
- The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
- I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough…
- It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must…
- An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations…
- Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening…
- I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I…
- Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every…
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