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- The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings,…
- I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
- There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the…
- What i value more than all things, good humor.
- He [Washington] has often declared to me that he considered our new constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government, and with what…
- The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings…
- Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the…
- The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. ... Love…
- Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.
- Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at…
- 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…
- It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.
- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as…
- I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means…
- The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to…
- Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.
- If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
- The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines of reason and…
- The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more…
- Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
- The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
- Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that…
- A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
- One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
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