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- [Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will…
- It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of…
- It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with…
- I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
- the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to…
- female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them…
- what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and…
- I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.
- The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to…
- 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…
- History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.
- I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance…
- I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to the height you…
- The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and…
- Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they…
- The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately,…
- What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not…
- In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in…
- The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts…
- When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives…
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle