| A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to
against
every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on
inference. |
| A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of
spirit. |
| A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where
fifty-one
percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. |
| A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men
free to
regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not
take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum
of good government. |
| Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on
in a
newspaper. |
| All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of
good
conscience to remain silent. |
| 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. |
| Always take hold of things by the smooth handle. |
| An association of men who will not quarrel with one
another
is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy
of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. |
| An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. |
| An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. |
| As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so
now let
us show them we can fight like men also. |
| Be polite to all, but intimate with few. |
| Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human
contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. |
| Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long
as a
house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere
consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of
professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. |
| 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. |
| Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should
be our
motto. |
| Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent
with
our government. |
| Delay is preferable to error. |
| Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates
the
germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. |
| Determine never to be idle. No person will have
occasion to
complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how
much may be done if we are always doing. |
| Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The
several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other. |
| Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know
there is
no hook beneath it. |
| Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action
will
delineate and define you. |
| Don't talk about what you have done or what you are
going to
do. |
| Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They
are
the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. |
| Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and
oppressions
of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. |
| Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left
free
to combat it. |
| Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case
with the
Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. |
| Every generation needs a new revolution. |
Worth repeating Every generation needs
a new
revolution. |
| Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers
of
the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. |
| Experience demands that man is the only animal which
devours
his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the
rich on the poor. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a
well-organized and armed militia is their best security. |
| Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of
despotism. |
| Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the
follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is
sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? |
| Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in
mind. |
| He who knows best knows how little he knows. |
| He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he
whose
mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. |
| History, in general, only informs us of what bad
government
is. |
| Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. |
| How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have
never
happened. |
| I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of
mankind. |
| I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the
imputed)
doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral
philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. |
| 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. |
| I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing
good
to another. |
| I cannot live without books. |
| I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming
feature. |
| I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month,
and I
feel myself infinitely the happier for it. |
| I find that he is happiest of whom the world says
least, good
or bad. |
| I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to
have. |
| I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and
thankless office. |
| I have no fear that the result of our experiment will
be that
men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. |
| I have recently been examining all the known
superstitions of
the world, and do not find in our particular superstition
(Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on
fables and mythology. |
| I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see
another. |
| I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility
against
every form of tyranny over the mind of man. |
| I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach
us,
that the less we use our power the greater it will be. |
| 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. |
| I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of
the
society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened
enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the
remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. |
| I like the dreams of the future better than the history
of
the past. |
| I never considered a difference of opinion in politics,
in
religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. |
| I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of
intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of
others. |
| I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic
government.
It is always oppressive. |
| I predict future happiness for Americans if they can
prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense
of taking care of them. |
| I think with the Romans, that the general of today
should be
a soldier tomorrow if necessary. |
| I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is
just;
that his justice cannot sleep forever. |
| 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. |
| I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences
attending too
much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. |
| I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I
work,
the more I have of it. |
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| Still more to come. I tired now. Sleep sleep. Going
into
hibernation mode. |
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