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- No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming…
- This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are…
- Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety,…
- Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
- It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
- 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…
- To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
- We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that…
- Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of…
- I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
- One man with courage is a majority.
- The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
- When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
- As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
- A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
- I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
- I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
- No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
- Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
- That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
- No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
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