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" The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals. "

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" 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. "

" The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. "

" 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. "

" Fear is the foundation of most governments. "

" Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. "

" Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. "

" Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. "

" The happiness of society is the end of government. "

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" Genius is sorrow's child. "

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" 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. "

" Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. "

" A government of laws, and not of men. "

" Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. "

" I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. "

" There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. "

" The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. "

" The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws. "

" I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman. "

" When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. "

" My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. "

" Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. "

" 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. "

" Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. "

" 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. "

" Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. "