“live simply so others can simply live”

“What happens when lying and stealing and immorality and murder become the norm? The result can be summarized in one word: chaos.”

“Learn to keep close to [Jesus], to listen to His voice, and follow Him.”

“remember that the moment you reduce the statement of your desire, and a plan for its realization, to writing, you have actually taken the first of a series of steps, which will enable you to convert the thought into its physical counterpart.”

“It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.”

“Hope clouds observation.”

“Dwelling on defeats, failures, and unfair situations will keep you stuck.”

“It is important to remember that for every person, there will be a problem. Even more importantly, for every problem, our God has a prescription!”

“in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.”

“The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.”

“Is the consideration of a little dirty pelf, to individuals, to be placed in competition with the essential rights & liberties of the present generation, & of millions yet unborn? shall a few designing men for their own aggrandizement, and to gratify their own avarice, overset the goodly fabric we have been rearing at the expence of so much time, blood, & treasure? and shall we at last become the victems of our own abominable lust of gain? Forbid it heaven! forbid it all, & every state in the union! by enacting & enforcing, efficatious laws for checking the growth of these monstrous evils, & restoring matters in some degree to the pristine state they were in at the commencement of the War. Our cause is noble. It is the cause of Mankind! and the danger to it springs from ourselves—Shall we slumber & sleep then while we should be punishing those miscreants who have brought these troubles upon us, & who are aiming to continue us in them? While we should be striving to fill our Battalions—and devising ways and means to appreciate the currency—On the credit of which every thing depends? I hope not—let vigorous measures be adopted—not to limit the price of articles—for this I conceive is inconsistent with the very nature of things, & impracticable in itself—but to punish speculators—forestallers—& extortioners—and above all—to sink the money by heavy Taxes—To promote public & private Œconomy—encourage Manufactures &ca—Measures of this sort gone heartily into by the several states will strike at once at the root of all our misfortunes, & give the coup-de-grace to British hope of subjugating this great Continent, either by their Arms or their Arts—The first as I have before observed they acknowledge is unequal to the task—the latter I am sure will be so if we are not lost to every thing that is good & virtuous.”

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated

“All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.”

“For a scientist, altering your doctrines when the facts change is not a sign of weakness.”

“Em tempos, os homens entregavam o pensamento às máquinas, na esperança de que isso os libertasse. Mas só permitiu que outros homens com máquinas os escravizassem”