No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
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Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue and a nation will be great in both always in proportion as it is free.
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Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed.
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I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
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