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- I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.
- To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are…
- I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.
- It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we…
- The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at…
- I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect, but the utility…
- 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…
- It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we have pursued for…
- If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess I know no…
- Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan of the holy…
- Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose…
- Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor…
- On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the…
- Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.
- History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as…
- You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be…
- On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who will ever be…
- Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors…
- I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I…
- Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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