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 | "There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those
that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and
those that bolt into the mind of their own Accord." | |
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Found in the topic Thief.
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| "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy
from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent
that will reach to himself." | |
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Found in the topic Liberty.
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| "Moderation in temper is always a virtue; But moderation in principle
is always a vice." | |
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Found in the topic Moderation.
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| "Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God
and angels know of us." | |
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Found in the topic Reputation.
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| "The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or
in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its
best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable
one." | |
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Found in the topic Government.
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| "Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind
of a child, cannot be a true system." | |
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Found in the topic Religion.
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| "These are the times that try men"s souls. The summer soldier and the
sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his
country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man
and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily" | |
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Found in the topic Country.
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| "The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it
is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes
the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime
again." | |
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Found in the topic Ridiculous.
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| "Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good
society." | |
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Found in the topic Companion.
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| "Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving: it
consists in professing to believe what one does not believe." | |
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Found in the topic Atheism.
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| "It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are
defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees,
the consequences will be the same." | |
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Found in the topic Cause.
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| "Character is much easier kept than recovered." | |
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Found in the topic Character.
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| "My own mind is my own church." | |
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Found in the topic Action.
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| "War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and
unsupposed circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It
has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes." | |
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Found in the topic Tax.
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| "Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all
it wants, is the liberty of appearing." | |
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Found in the topic Truth.
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| "Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation is principle
is always a vice." | |
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Found in the topic Temper.
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| "Man must go back to nature for information." | |
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Found in the topic Nature.
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| "That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is
dearness only which gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a
proper price on its goods." | |
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Found in the topic Easy.
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| "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength
from distress, and grow brave by reflection. "Tis the business of little
minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves
his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." | |
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Found in the topic Courage.
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