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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.



In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.



Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.



It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.



Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war; for sure I am, if this country is preserved in tranquillity twenty years longer, it may bid defiance, in a just cause, to any power



Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.



As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.



When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.



It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.



Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.



Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.



If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.



Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.



Government is not reason, it is not eloquence. It is force, and like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.



The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.








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