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" Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. "
Abuse
Society
Great
" A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. "
Desire
Well
Beloved
" A government of laws, and not of men. "
Men
Government
Laws
" All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. "
Nature
Constitution
Honor
" As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. "
Birds
Long
Love
" Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. "
Character
Moral
Power
" Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. "
Long
Democracy
More
" Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. "
Evidence
Wishes
May
" Fear is the foundation of most governments. "
Most
Foundation
Governments
" Genius is sorrow's child. "
Sorrow
Genius
Child
" Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. "
War
Great
Guilt
" Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. "
Imagination
Eye
Spell
" I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. "
Opening
America
Wonder
" I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate. "
My Own
House
You
" I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman. "
Woman
You
Write
" I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. "
Politics
Mathematics
War
" In politics the middle way is none at all. "
Middle
Way
None
" I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case. "
Health
Bread
Eat
" Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. "
Think
Speak
Cherish
" Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. "
Liberty
Power
Thought
" Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. "
People
Knowledge
Liberty
" My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. "
Imagination
Country
Office
" Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. "
Exercise
Working
Wish
" Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. "
Government
People
Moral
" Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. "
Generation
Freedom
Hope
" Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. "
Soul
Always
Beyond
" Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. "
Laws
Always
Doing
" Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. "
Property
Right
Real
" Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. "
Remember
Democracy
Long
" The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it. "
Independence
Always
Show
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