| 03/09/1832 |
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men. |
Topics: Love |
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| 03/09/1832 |
Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost. |
Topics: Inspirational |
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| 06/13/1836 |
I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms, (by no means excluding females.) |
Topics: Freedom, Politics |
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| 06/13/1836 |
I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burthens. |
Topics: Freedom |
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| 06/21/1836 |
No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them. |
Topics: Humor |
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| 06/21/1836 |
I once had the confidence of the people ... and if I have since done any thing, either by design or misadventure, which if known, would subject me to a forfeiture of that confidence, he that knows of that thing, and conceals it, is a traitor to his country's interest. |
Topics: Freedom |
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| 01/11/1837 |
In one faculty, at least, there can be no dispute of the gentleman's superiority over me, and most other men; and that is, the faculty of entangling a subject, so that neither himself, or any other man, can find head or tail to it. |
Topics: Leadership, Humor |
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| 01/11/1837 |
It is an old maxim and a very sound one, that he that dances should always pay the fiddler. |
Topics: Economy |
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| 01/11/1837 |
These capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people, and now, that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel. |
Topics: Economy |
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| 01/11/1837 |
Mr. Chairman, this movement is exclusively the work of politicians; a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people, and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men. I say this with the greater freedom because, being a politician myself, none can regard it as personal.: |
Topics: Freedom |
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