I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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

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

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its...

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its...

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows...

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows...

To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every...

To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every...

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed...

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed...

A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not...

A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not...

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power...

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power...

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

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

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is...

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is...

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy...

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy...

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

The merchant has no country

The merchant has no country

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it...

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it...

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded, are justice...

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded, are justice...

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the...

One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the...