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Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!
Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.
Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.
To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.
Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it.
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.
How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.
Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?
Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.
...till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion.
We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.
Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.
If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.
A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law
The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.
I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.
Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.
There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all. Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.
Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her.
Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.
Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.
Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.
I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.
Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.
War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.
I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct in this.
There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.
You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.
Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.
I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.
The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.
Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but skill to read.
Nor is it of much Importance to us to know the Manner in which Nature executes her laws; 'tis enough to know the Laws themselves.
That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.
It has been observed, [that for the federal government] to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised.
The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.
On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.
These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.
The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.
But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. [Fr., Mais dons ce monde, il n'y a rien d'assure que le mort et les impots.]