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- May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.
- The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe…
- Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and…
- I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
- Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and…
- To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to…
- To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare…
- The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of…
- We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.
- Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our…
- The people will not understand the importance of the Second Amendment until it is too late.
- It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we have pursued for…
- The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as much to the…
- Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the…
- 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 can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest,…
- Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible…
- I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.
- It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one…
- Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships…
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