In a virtuous and free state, no rewards can be so pleasing to sensible minds, as those which include the approbation of our fellow citizens. My great pain is, lest my poor endeavours should fall short of the kind expectations of my country.
In a virtuous and free state, ...
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
