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- An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
- Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
- Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . .…
- Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.
- No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case…
- I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man...
- In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of…
- Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he…
- All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every…
- The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger…
- I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
- To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for…
- Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a…
- The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.
- Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his…
- Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.
- The Creator would indeed have been a bungling artist had he intended man for a social animal without planting in him social dispositions.
- No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
- Conscience is the only clue that will eternally guide a man clear of all doubts and inconsistencies.
- The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in…
- No man will ever bring out of the presidency the reputation which carries him into it
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