“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.”
Religion“One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.”
Hope“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.”
Religion“Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.”
Happiness“Never spend your money before you have earned it.”
Money“It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.”
Good“It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.”
Happiness“When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.”
Anger“The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.”
Government“I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.”
Good“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
Wisdom“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.”
Good“Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.”
Love“I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.”
War“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
Government“Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.”
Experience“I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.”
War“A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”
Government“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever.”
God“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.”
God“Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.”
Politics“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.”
Fear