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- A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more…
- I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common…
- I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances,…
- 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…
- Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their…
- Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to…
- If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap…
- 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,…
- Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from…
- To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the present day, and…
- Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it…
- The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.
- For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.
- 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…
- Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked…
- One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.
- The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.
- The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be…
- A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most…
- When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and…
- War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be…
- The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow)…
- It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we have pursued for…
- Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a…
- [I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of…
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