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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is fir...   Politics
A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.  
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appe...  
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation i...  
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserv...  
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.  
But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and al...  
Character is much easier kept than recovered.  
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and un...   Art
From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a con...  
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its wo...   Government
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy f...  
Human nature is not of itself vicious.  
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties ...  
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the R...  
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength fro...  
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have ...  
If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.  
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful t...  
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are d...  
It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into co...  
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.  
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle i...  
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.  
My mind is my own church.  
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to ...  
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God an...  
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best...  
That government is best which governs least.   Government
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.  
The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like to...  
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.  
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A g...   Government
The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.  
The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.  
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absen...  
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good i...  
There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that...  
These are times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunsh...  
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, unde...  
Time makes more converts than reason.  
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.  
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be...  
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty the...  
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yoursel...  
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed...  
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not...  
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.  
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only t...  
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of libert...  
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue i...