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To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
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Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions.
Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are not too nicely to scrutinize motives as long as action is irreproachable. It is enough (and for a worthy man perhaps too much) to deal out its infamy to convicted guilt and declared apostasy.
War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.
No men can act with effect who do not act in concert; no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence; no men can act with confidence who are not bound together with common opinions, common affections, and common interests.
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Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.
