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 | "I"m a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the
more I have of it." | |
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Found in the topic Luck.
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| "To expect a nation to be ignorant and free is to expect something
which never has been, and never can be." | |
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Found in the topic Nation.
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| "In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference
of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection
of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy
country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing
clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more
bright and serene." | |
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Found in the topic Opinion.
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| "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be
limited without being lost." | |
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Found in the topic Liberty.
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| "My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war ? and I
hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society,
to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair." | |
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Found in the topic War.
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| "A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and
order." | |
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Found in the topic Universe.
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| "The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to
skepticism." | |
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Found in the topic Mind.
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| "The art of life is the art of avoiding pain." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins
in his conduct." | |
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Found in the topic Public.
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| "The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead." | |
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Found in the topic Earth.
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| "I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could
propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over
others." | |
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Found in the topic Others.
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| "A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of
spirit." | |
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Found in the topic Cowardice.
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| "I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective
over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in
sufficient proportion, should be selected by the society for the govenment
of their affairs, rather than that this should be be transmitted through
the loins of knaves and fools passing from the debauches of the table to
those of the bed." | |
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Found in the topic President.
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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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Found in the topic Soldier.
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| "It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation,
which give happiness." | |
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Found in the topic Happiness.
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| "Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest
principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission." | |
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Found in the topic Honest.
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| "All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural,
essential, and unalienable rights." | |
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Found in the topic Rights.
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| "The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his
ethics." | |
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Found in the topic Ethics.
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| "How much pain have cost us the evils which have never
happened." | |
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Found in the topic Pessimist.
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| "That government is best which governs the least, because its people
discipline themselves." | |
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Found in the topic Discipline.
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