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- The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one…
- Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked…
- We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but…
- The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early…
- My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.
- With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliation, and above all things to let the love…
- It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good…
- A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at…
- Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the…
- We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.
- I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in…
- I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents…
- I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county,…
- No government can continue good, but under the control of the people.
- It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I…
- I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of…
- He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it…
- It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.
- Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships…
- All we can do is to make the best of our friends, love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the…
- Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness…
- I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
- A little revolution is a good thing.
- What i value more than all things, good humor.
- I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further…
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