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Quotes by Politician
"If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty."
"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
"Great hopes make everything great possible."
"If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like serve yourself."
"Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be."
"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."
"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!"
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
"The proud hate pride - in others."
"Perform without fail what you resolve."
"A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors."
"To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible."
"I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised."
"... a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work."
"Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later."
"Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
"The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read."
"A man who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither."
"What maintains one vice would bring up two children."
"The way to be safe is never to be secure."
"Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults."
"A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail the shoe was lost for want of a shoe the horse was lost for want of a horse the battle was lost for want of the battle the war was lost."
"Let thy discontents be thy secrets."
"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."
"Be not sick too late, nor well too soon."
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
"All would live long but none would be old."
"A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather."
"To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends."
"Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience."
"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him."
"People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."
"Ohne Gedankenfreiheit gibt es keine Weisheit. Und ohne Redefreiheit keine A¶ffentliche Freiheit."
"Let they child's first lesson be obedience and the second will be what thou wilt."
"Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all."
"A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one."
"A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance."
"But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes."
"The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse."
"An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife."
"If men are so wicked with religion what would they be without it?"
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
"There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him."
"For my own Part, when I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring Favours, but as paying Debts. In my Travels, and since my Settlement, I have received much Kindness from Men, to whom I shall never have any Opportunity of making the least direct Return. And numberless Mercies from God, who is infinitely above being benefited by our Services. Those Kindnesses from Men, I can therefore only Return on their Fellow Men; and I can only shew my Gratitude for these mercies from God, by a readiness to help his other Children and my Brethren. For I do not think that Thanks and Compliments, tho' repeated weekly, can discharge our real Obligations to each other, and much less those to our Creator."
"To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind."
"The best is the cheapest."
"There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
"The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself."
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