All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.
It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.
If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.
Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.
Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.
A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.
The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels. Man must drink and breathe and walk and therefore each man has a right to his share of each.
The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
The sun had not risen, but the vault of heaven was rich with the winning, softness that "brings and shuts the day," while the whole air was filled with the carols of birds, the hymns of the feathered tribe.
Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or to substitute its fluctuating expedients for the high principles of natural justice that ought to lie at the root of every political system, it should be frowned on, and rebuked.
We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.
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