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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
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In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree.
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.
And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.
The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
My mind is my own church.
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To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
