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- A republican government is slow to move, yet once in motion it's momentum becomes irresistible.
- Determine never to be idle…It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
- Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
- Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
- I cannot live without books.
- I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
- I have never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.
- I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
- I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.
- Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the general progress of the human mind.
- Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
- Never spend your money before you have it.
- Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
- No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.
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