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enough to take everything you have The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first. "Cherish... the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them." -- 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'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. 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. Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. |
nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?-
our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now. The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it. We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will. Health is worth more than learning. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. |
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