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- I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of…
- I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into…
- Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong…
- I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two…
- I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where…
- Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free and…
- If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the…
- Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.
- 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,…
- 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…
- I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- 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…
- 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 natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would…
- Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.
- Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition…
- I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that…
- The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.
- In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the…
- The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.
- Sir, no nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion that has been given…
- 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…
- I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.
- Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.
- If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice…
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