We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
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No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
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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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To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
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Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
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It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
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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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Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
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Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
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I have sworn upon the alter of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as they are injurious to others.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
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