"Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise."
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"If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions."
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"Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper."
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"A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate."
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"The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which, once entered, is scarcely to be restrained from reaching successively every article of produce and property."
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"It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately."
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"A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable."
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"He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ."
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"The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms."
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"Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now."
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"I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man."
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"A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity."
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"Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70."
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"Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion."
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"Never trouble another for what you can do yourself"
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"Every man has two countries: his own and France."
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"Action will delineate and define you."
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"The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man."
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"It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all."
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"People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace."
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