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Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Summary View of the Rights of British America
The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
To A. Stuart, 1791
If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
First Inaugural, 4 March 1801
In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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