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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. ”
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. ”
Be polite to all, but intimate with few. ”
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted. ”
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? ”
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. ”
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. ”
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it. ”
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. ”
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. ”