Wisdom begins at the end.
What is valuable is not new and what is new is not valuable.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of civilization.
Keep cool anger is not an argument.
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
There is always room at the top.
Liberty and Union now and for ever one and inseparable!
When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
Most good lawyers live well work hard and die poor.
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country, my God & Truth. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths but usually quarrel among themselves.
I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets she needs none. There she is. Behold her and judge for yourselves.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, f...
