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Public offices were not made for private convenience.
Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.
We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform.
...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
Government governed least is government governed best.
No society is so precious as that of one’s own family.
Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality
You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.
Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
A free government is of all others the most energetic.
Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.
The government you elect is the government you deserve.
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.
Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art .
The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one.
The law of self-preservation is higher than written law.
Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.
The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.
Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper.
I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude
Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither.
The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us.
Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.
I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.
We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.
Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind
Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
Our business is to have great credit and to use it little.
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.
God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.