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A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences. - [Rights] A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. - [Cowardice] A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society. - [Nation] A republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible. - [Government] A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth. - [Government] A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims. - [Zeal] A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither. - [Liberty] A strong body makes the mind strong. - [Health] Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor. - [Humor] Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence. - [Society] Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. - [Prosperity] All authority belongs to the people. - [Authority] All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. - [Revolution] Always take hold of things by the smooth handle. - [Ease] An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. - [Power] An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. - [Friends] And for the support of this declaration, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. - [Oaths] Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometric progression as they rise. - [Taxation] Be polite to all, but intimate with few. - [Politeness] But friendship is precious, not only in shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. - [Friendship] But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. - [Slavery] Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law. - [Christianity] Conquest is not in our principles; it is inconsistent with our government. - [Conquest] Defamation is becoming a necessity of life; inasmuch as a dish of tea in the morning or evening cannot be digested without this stimulant. - [Slander] Delay is preferable to error. - [Delay] Displaying page 1 of 7 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7
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