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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

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That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we foun...more

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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

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I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

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It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of c...more

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

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One man with courage is a majority.

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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

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The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of the legislature is real...more

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Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American e...more

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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his ...more