Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Wisdom
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Happiness
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Happiness
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Freedom
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Truth
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Freedom
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Wisdom
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Hope
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
Wisdom
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
Wisdom
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Happiness
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Friendship
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Wisdom
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Wisdom
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Courage
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Freedom
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
Life
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
Wisdom
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Wisdom
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Wisdom
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Wisdom
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Happiness
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
Wisdom
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