“Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.”
Truth“The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.”
Government“Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.”
Truth“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
Best“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.”
War“One man with courage is a majority.”
Courage“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.”
Men“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
Dreams“I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.”
War“To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.”
Education“As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.”
Men“That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.”
Government“It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.”
Religion“Never spend your money before you have earned it.”
Money“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“When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.”
Trust“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
Motivational“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”
Hope“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
Cool“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
Good“If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.”
Government“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.”
Government