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- One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.
- Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but they differ essentially…
- France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties…
- Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life:…
- No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
- The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
- 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…
- It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars…
- When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
- 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…
- When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- One man with courage is a majority.
- If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and…
- One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
- One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
- I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
- Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
- If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
- I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
- An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations…
- The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and…
- Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were…
- The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
- Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
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