"What is it men cannot be made to believe!"
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"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth."
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"The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged."
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"Freedom, the first-born of science."
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"I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading."
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"Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and their result too fallacious to satisfy the mind. It is probably an age too soon to propose the establishment of a system."
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"The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue."
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"When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything."
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"The days of life are consumed, one by one, without an object beyond the present moment; ever flying from the ennui of that, yet carrying it with us; eternally in pursuit of happiness, which keeps eternally before us. If death or bankruptcy happen to trip us out of the circle, it is matter for the buzz of the evening, and is completely forgotten by the next morning."
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"No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him."
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"We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform."
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"If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor."
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"When the heart is right, the feet are swift."
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"Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war."
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"The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures."
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"That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as I cannot place among possible things in this age and country."
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"We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest."
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"I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way."
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"Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous."
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"Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?"
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