Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.