“History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.”
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.