The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
From Thomas Jefferson
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
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