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“There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.”
“Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth.”
“Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.”
“I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.”
“As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
“Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy.”
“Military glory—that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.”
“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.”
“With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.”
“It is the eternal struggle between these two principles—right and wrong—throughout the world.”
“The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.”
“Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.”
“I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong.”