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There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.
All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!.
I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.
We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them
With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.
The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.
The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.
The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.
May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.
We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.
I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.
A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.
I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.
What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.
The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.
Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.
Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.
There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.
The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends.
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.
A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.
I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.
Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.
The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.
Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.
The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.