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- Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them…
- If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.
- Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old…
- Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in…
- Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.
- If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?
- Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.
- Promises may fit the friends, but non performance will turn them into enemies.
- That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for…
- [T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away…
- Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.
- As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them…
- Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.
- We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies…
- I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and…
- Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than they…
- And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from…
- Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.
- When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on…
- If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
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