am unable to decide in my own mind whether I had rather have it or not have it.

18.

I am no believer in the amalgamation of parties, nor do I consider it as either desirable or useful to the public.

19.

It is necessary to give as well as take in a government like

ours.

20.

It accords with our principles to acknowledge any government to be rightful which is formed by the will of the nation substantially declared.

21.

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

22.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military.

23.

Wars and contentions indeed fill the pages of history with more matter. But more blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

24.

For a people who are free and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

25.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is the wisest policy.

26.

If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

I wish

we

27.

could distribute our four hundred monocrats among

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the Indians who would teach them lessons of liberty and equality.

28.

We are not expected to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed.

29.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

30.

Our citizens may be deceived for a while and have been deceived; but as long as the press can be protected we trust them for light.

31.

The newspapers are the first of all human contrivances for generating war.

32.

Letters are not the first but the last steps in the progression from barbarism to civilization.

33.

Men are disposed to live honestly if the means of doing so are open to them.

34.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

35.

I place economy among the first and most important of Republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.

36.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured on him.

37.

I am not one of those who fear the people.

38.

In most countries a fixed quantity of wheat is perhaps the best permanent standard of value.

39.

The English would not lose the sale of a bale of furs for <!

the freedom of the whole world.

40.

I have made it a rule never to engage in a lottery or any other adventure of mere chance.

41.

The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility.

42.

I have ever found in my progress through life, that acting for the public if we always do what is right, the approbation denied in the beginning will surely follow in the end.

43.

What all agree in is probably right; what no two agree in is most probably wrong.

44.

If we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap and pleasanter than the gloom of despair.

45.

I have never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.

46.

Had there never been a commentator there never would have been an infidel.

47.

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christian.

48.

Whatever be the degree of talent it is no measure of right;

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because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he was not therefore lord of the person or property of others.

49.

The English never made an equal commercial treaty with any nation, and we have no right to expect to be the first.

50.

Money and not morality is the principle of commerce and commercial nations.

51.

My idea is that we should encourage home manufactures to the extent of our own consumption of every thing of which we raise the raw material.

52.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling never fails of employment in it.

53.

A tour (term) of duty, in whatever line he can be most useful to his country, is due from every individual.

54.

I have never conceived that having been in public life requires me to belie my sentiments or even to conceal them

55.

I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations— to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements, and, under all circumstances, to be open and generous.

56.

Matrimony illy agrees with study, especially in the first stages of both.

57.

To most minds exile is next to death; to many beyond it.

58.

The only reward I ever wished on my retirement was to carry with me nothing like a disapprobation of the public.

59.

If some termination of the service of the chief magistrate be not fixed by the Constitution, his office will become for life.

60.

The main objects of all science are the freedom and happiness of man.

61.

To be really useful we must keep pace with the state of society and not dishearten if by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.

62.

The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe, as they are the sole, depository of our religious and political freedom.

63.

There are two subjects which I shall claim a right to further as long as I have breath, the public education and the subdivision of the counties into wards (townships). I consider the continuance of Republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks.

64.

A Republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion its momentum becomes irresistible.

65.

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual; are the only legitimate objects of government.

66.

We may still believe with security that the great body of American people must for ages yet be substantially Republican.