We never repent of having eaten too little.
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No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.
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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
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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.
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The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
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I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
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It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
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Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
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