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- All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief…
- Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of…
- no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free…
- among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ...…
- what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and…
- I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
- I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance…
- Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public…
- It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of…
- His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon…
- Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And…
- Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest…
- I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
- I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but…
- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set…
- An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.
- You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject…
- Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.
- The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More…
- People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We tend to become what the most important person in our life thinks we will become. Think the best, believe the best,… — John C. Maxwell
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt