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The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
The National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.
When you see a good move, sit on your hands and find a better one.
The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.
The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.
The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.
This is a revolution, damn it! We're going to have to offend somebody!
Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubborness, when I know I am right.
Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?
It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.
One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.
To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.
We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people
Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind.
Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.
I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.
Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.
Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence
Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.
The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
I am for making of terms annual, and for sending an entire new set every year.
The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land.
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.
The appearance of religion only on Sunday proves that it is only an appearance.
I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.
What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.
They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves.
The destiny of America is to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men everywhere.
The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.
Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror!
Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.
I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.
They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.
July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.
You may have the bishop pair but I have the ultimate advantage; I am the better player!
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.
Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.
I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.