“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
Cool“Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.”
Power“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
Cool“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.”
Happiness“It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.”
Happiness“One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.”
Hope“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”
Friendship“There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.”
Men“Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.”
Truth“An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.”
Men“The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.”
Government“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.”
Men“The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.”
Inspirational“That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.”
Government“No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.”
Government“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.”
Friendship“If God is just, I tremble for my country.”
God“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
Politics“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.”
Government“The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.”
War“The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.”
Power“Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.”
Life