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.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.
Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.
Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.
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 sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.
It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!
The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference.
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.
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 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.
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
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.
Individuality is the aim of political liberty.
In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.
Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.
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