Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it.
The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather from it.
Should ardent spirits be everywhere banished from the list of drinks, it will be a revolution not the least remarkable in this revolutionary age, and our country will have its full share in that as in other merits.
The best service that can be rendered to a Country, next to that of giving it liberty, is in diffusing the mental improvement equally essential to the preservation, and the enjoyment of the blessing.
Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of his country.
The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of other countries, as well as of our own; and to provide a convenient mode of rectifying their own errors, as future experience may unfold them.
No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.
Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.
I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.
From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.
If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn’t mean that you are living in the wrong country or at the wrong time. It simply means that you have the wrong plan.
In America we have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts from all over the world been deposited in one country.
Thank God we’re living in a country where the sky’s the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.
I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
If one doesn’t know one’s own country, one doesn’t have standards for foreign countries.
If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one’s duty toward one’s own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.
Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.
You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.