Quotes 21 till 40 of 131.
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Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. Protection from casual embarrassments, however, may sometimes be seasonably interposed.
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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.
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Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
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Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.
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Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
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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.
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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...
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Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.
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Hey, mama, what have I said and done? You treat me like my trouble has just begun.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
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How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened?
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