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- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
- Majority
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- Nov 07, 2020
One man with courage is a majority.
- Despair
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- Nov 07, 2020
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
- Begets
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
- Compel
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- Nov 07, 2020
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot live without books.
- Error
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- Nov 07, 2020
Delay is preferable to error.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
- Expect
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
- Having
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- Nov 07, 2020
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Good Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
- Habitual
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- Nov 07, 2020
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
- Greatest Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Debarred
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- Nov 07, 2020
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
- Educated
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
- Handle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
- Longing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
- Losses
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- Nov 07, 2020