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"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"
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"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."
"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."
"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present."
"She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind."
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"Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell."
"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
"The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws."
"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago."
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
"As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children."
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