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- I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed…
- We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions...
- Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army, which…
- Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain…
- Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive…
- We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems,…
- The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other…
- Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and…
- May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants-while…
- My ardent desire is, and my aim has been . . . to comply strictly with all our engagements foreign and domestic; but to keep…
- Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one…
- The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation,…
- No compact among men . . . can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words,…
- The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings,…
- Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior…
- What is most important of this grand experiment, the United States? Not the election of the first president but the election of its second president.…
- When Men are irritated, and the Passions inflamed, they fly hastily and cheerfully to Arms; but after the first emotions are over, to expect, among…
- Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
- Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.
- Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.
- We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought…
- It has always been a source of serious reflection and sincere regret with me that the youth of the United States should be sent to…
- Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.
- I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious…
- The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour