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Our Federal Union: it must be preserved.
Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.
Distinctions in society will always exist under ever just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.
Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?
It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act of faith therein.
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
The best use of life is to use it for something that outlasts life.
The deepest principle of human nature is the desire to be appreciated.
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
If you care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
Religion, in short, is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and most trivial of human pursuits.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
I am unfaithful to my own possibilities when I await from a change of circumstances what I can do on my own initiative.
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.
Force cannot give right.
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country.
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers, and be capable of reading them.
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them: inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.
The spirit of resistence to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God.
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government could refuse, or rest in inferences.
In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
To reform a man is tedious and uncertain labor; hanging is the sure work of a minute.
I've told Bill that I think it's in Microsoft's best interest in NeXT becomes successful because we'll give him something to copy for the rest of the decade.
Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.
Without a home there can be no good citizen. With a home there can be no bad one.
Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
For the first time in our history, it is possible to conquer poverty.
This administration today, here and now declares an unconditional war on poverty.
I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity ceases to squint its eyes at pigmentation of human complexions, emancipation will be a proclamation--but it will not be a fact.
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.
Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private. I have urged Congress--except when the Nation's security is at stake--to take action to that end.
Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
Curiousity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
No man ever yet became great by imitation.
It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.
Why can't life's problems hit us when we're seventeen and know everything?
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
Most people like hard work. Particularly when they are paying for it.
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
I have not yet begun to fight.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell if they would venture their industry the right way.
The world steps aside to let any man pass if he knows where he is going.
Fools must be rejected not by arguments, but by facts.
Part of kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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