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“May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him!”
“No man knocks himself down; if his destiny knocks him down, his destiny must pick him up again.”
“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”
“The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.”
“It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.”
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”
“The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.”
“What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man!”
“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”
“I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.”
“God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.”
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
“I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.”
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.”
“If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.”