Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
Never spend money before you have it.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have the occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any.
The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
History has informed us that bodies of men, as well as individuals, are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state, and calls for an exercise of the power of dissolution.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
A free people [claim] their rights, as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe.
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.
Paper is poverty ... it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality.
Self-love ... is no part of morality. Indeed, it is exactly its counterpart.
Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry…. truth is great and will prevail if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict.
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Consider every act of this kind, as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth.
What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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