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We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.
No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.
I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.
The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree.
I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.
The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.
I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.
I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
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Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.
the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.
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.
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.
The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.
Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.
Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.
The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.
The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.
One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.
A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.
Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.
Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.
I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.
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.
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter
While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage
What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.
The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.
Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.
Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.
No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.
I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.
Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends
Not for ourselves alone, but for all humanity... Let us hasten to find the path that leads to liberty, safety, and peace for everyone.
Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.
The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?
The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.
If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.