The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
From Thomas Jefferson
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
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