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
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,
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
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
Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.
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
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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
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