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- Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have…
- The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by…
- Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty…
- I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely…
- 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…
- I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect…
- I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in…
- It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.
- The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.
- I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.
- The parties of Whig and Tory are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names or by those of Aristocrats…
- If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
- You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be…
- I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in…
- 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…
- It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too…
- It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to…
- The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to…
- Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country,…
- Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again…
- A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.
- 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…
- I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.
- Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy…
- We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
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