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 | "Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in
this: When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night
it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes
pervaded with it. Then the effort which I have made is what people are
pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and
thought." | |
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Found in the topic Effort.
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| "Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for
nothing." | |
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Found in the topic Firm.
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| "In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men,
the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to
control the governed, and in the next place oblige it to control
itself." | |
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Found in the topic Government.
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| "Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and
includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite
... to the attainment of the ends of such power." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal." | |
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Found in the topic Man.
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| "A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national
blessing." | |
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Found in the topic Debt.
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| "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." | |
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Found in the topic Belief.
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| "Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold
the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me to become his
apologist. Nor can I have any disposition to do it. I admit that his
politics are tinctured with fanaticism, that he is too much in earnest in
his democracy, that he has been a mischievous enemy to the principle
measures of our past administration, that he is crafty & persevering in
his objects, that he is not scrupulous about the means of success, nor
very mindful of truth, and that he is a contemptible hypocrite." | |
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Found in the topic Politics.
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| "That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the
object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration. His
administration has already very materially disgraced and sunk the
government. There are defects in his character which must inevitably
continue to do this more and more. And if he is supported by the federal
party, his party must in the issue fall with him." | |
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Found in the topic President.
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| "We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided." | |
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Found in the topic Adapt.
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| "Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in
planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they
dislike." | |
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Found in the topic Opposition.
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| "The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old
parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the
whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can
never be erased or obscured by mortal power." | |
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Found in the topic Housework.
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