"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
- George Washington
"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike."
- Alexander Hamilton
"Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error."
- Benjamin Rush
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value."
- Thomas Paine
"A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life."
- John Hancock
"Error is discipline through which we advance."
- William Ellery
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
- James Madison
"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."
- John Adams
"I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned."
- Daniel Webster
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
- Patrick Henry
"No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent."
- John Jay
"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."
- Samuel Adams
"In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate — look to his character."
- Noah Webster
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