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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always...

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It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it...

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that...

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

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