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The same prudence, which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public monies.
One man with courage is a majority.
Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle: that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Delay is preferable to error.
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
I cannot live without books.
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
The Constitution allows only the means which are ‘necessary,’ not those which are merely ‘convenient,’ for effecting the enumerated powers. If such a latitude of construction be allowed to this phrase as to give any non-enumerated power, it will go to every one, for there is not one which ingenuity may not torture into a convenience in some instance or other, to some one of so long a list of enumerated powers. It would swallow up all the delegated powers, and reduce the whole to one power, as before observed.
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
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