The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
Genius is sorrow’s child.
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Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination – everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
A government of laws, and not of men.
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.
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You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.
Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.
I’ve changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.
When I was about 15… I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
Don’t be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.
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If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.
I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.
New Jersey is the first state in the country to agree to treat gay and unmarried couples the same as married couples.
Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.
The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.
Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen.
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The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.
Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.
Our children’s children will hear a good story.
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
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I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.
My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.