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- I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that…
- In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the…
- One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.
- The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated…
- A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything…
- Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
- Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it…
- Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan of the holy…
- To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.
- If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to feeling and indeed…
- No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.
- It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.
- It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I…
- I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of…
- Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will,…
- The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our…
- If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an…
- It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one…
- No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what…
- ...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation…
- There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
- The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still…
- Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest…
- 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…
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