~ A wise and frugal government ... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government ~  ~ When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated ~ ~ 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. ~ ~ Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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.
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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
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