A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
A strong conviction that something must be done is parent of many bad measures.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution of your country and the government established under it. Leave evils which exist in some parts of the country, but which are beyond your control, to the all-wise direction of an over-ruling Providence. Perform those duties which are present, plain and positive. Respect the laws of your country.
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on Earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.
Lawyers on opposite sides of a case are like the two parts of shears; they cut what comes between them, but not each other.
Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety; and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.
Standing armies are the oppressive instruments for governing the people, in the hands of hereditary and arbitrary monarchs.
The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.
The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.
The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
There is always room at the top.
There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
There is nothing so powerful as truth- and often nothing so strange.
We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
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