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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
- Effectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
- Consented
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
- Glory
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genius is sorrow's child.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020