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4.1 · 20 votes · 124 reads
Government and Politics
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.4.1 · 33 votes · 4 reads
Feelings
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.4.8 · 30 votes · 48 reads
Thought and Reason
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.4.4 · 37 votes · 127 reads
Thought and Reason
For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...3.9 · 9 votes · 174 reads
Art and Culture
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it.3.8 · 55 votes · 85 reads
Government and Politics
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.4.1 · 11 votes · 129 reads
Government and Politics
I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office4.1 · 64 votes · 158 reads
Government and Politics
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.4.1 · 29 votes · 49 reads
Thought and Reason
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.4.3 · 64 votes · 49 reads
Thought and Reason
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.4.0 · 13 votes · 161 reads
Government and Politics
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.4.1 · 25 votes · 149 reads
Government and Politics
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.4.9 · 41 votes · 108 reads
Government and Politics
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.4.1 · 45 votes · 96 reads
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