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The company in which you will improve most will be least expensive to you.
It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.
Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master.
As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.
Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.
It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.
Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.
I am principled against selling negroes, as you would do cattle at a market.
It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.
The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils
For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.
Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present.
No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.
It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.
Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man
There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.
The Constitution that we have is an excellent one, if we can keep it where it is.
Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't.
It is in vain, I perceive, to look for ease and happiness in a world of troubles.
The most certain way to make a man your enemy is to tell him you esteem him such.
Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.
Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.
A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.
Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.
Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.
There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily
When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.
The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.
Offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only means of defence.
When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered.
Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength.
Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.
Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.
If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.
Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.
Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.
Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.
To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.
I heard the bullets whistle-- and believe me, there is something charming in the sound.