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The only greater evil than separation... is living under a government of discretion



Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force



The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not



For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish piecemeal.



I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.



All authority belongs to the people



For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security.



Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.



Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.



Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.



I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.



When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.



The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.



I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.



The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.







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