The Quotable Founding Fathers : A Treasury Of 2,500 Wise And Witty Quotations From The Men And Women Who Created America

Introduction ix John Adams 1(1) John Quincy Adams 2(1) Samuel Adams 2(1) Advice & Advisors 3(1) Age & Aging 3(3) Aggression 6(1) Agriculture & Farming 6(2) Alcohol, Alcoholism, & Drunkenness 8(1) Ambition 9(2) America & Americanism 11(7) Anger 18(1) Appearances & Vanity 19(1) Argument & Debate 20(1) Benedict Arnold 20(1) Arts 20(2) Attention & Neglect 22(1) Bad Company 23(1) Baltimore 23(1) Banks & Banking 23(1) Bigotry 23(1) Bill of Rights 24(1) Books 25(1) Boston 25(1) Botany & Gardening 25(1) Bravery & Courage 26(1) Aaron Burr 26(1) Business & Trade 27(3) Change 30(1) Character 30(1) Charity 31(1) Children & Parenting 32(1) Cities 33(1) Civil Rights 34(1) Compromise & Moderation 34(1) Congress 34(1) Connecticut 35(1) Conscience 36(1) Consistency 37(1) Constitution 38(10) Corruption & Bribery 48(1) Crime & Punishment 48(1) Cynicism 49(2) Death 51(2) Declaration of Independence 53(3) Defamation & Personal Attacks 56(1) Democracy & Republicanism 57(6) Dependence 63(1) Difficulties & Adversity 63(1) Discipline 64(1) Due Process 65(1) Duty 66(1) Economics 67(1) Education 67(5) Elections & Politics 72(2) England (United Kingdom) 74(4) Envy & Malice 78(1) Equality & Equal Rights 78(2) Error 80(1) Excuses 81(1) Expansion & Manifest Destiny 81(1) Experience 82(1) Facts & Opinions 83(1) Faith 83(1) Family 83(1) First Settlers 84(5) The Flag 89(1) Flattery & Praise 89(1) Force & Coercion 90(2) Foreign Influence 92(1) Foreign Relations & Policy 92(4) France 96(1) Benjamin Franklin 97(1) Freedom 97(2) Freedom of Speech & Press 99(5) Friends & Friendship 104(2) Future 106(1) Abraham Alfonse Albert Galatin 107(1) Gambling 107(1) Geography 107(1) Georgia 108(1) God & Providence 108(2) Good & Evil 110(1) Government 110(14) Government Spending & Public Debt 124(2) Great Men & Statesmen 126(1) Greed 127(1) Guns & Weapons 127(1) Alexander Hamilton 128(1) Happiness 128(2) Health & Medicine 130(1) History 131(2) Honesty 133(1) Honor 133(1) Human Nature 134(1) Humanity 134(1) Humility 134(1) Hypocrisy 134(2) Immigration 136(1) Impeachment 137(1) Independence & National Freedom 137(5) Intelligence & Knowledge 142(3) Thomas Jefferson 145(1) John Paul Jones 146(1) Judiciary & the Courts 147(5) Juries 152(1) Justice 152(2) Kentucky 154(1) Kings & Aristocrats 154(3) Labor & Work 157(1) Language & Writing 158(2) Laws 160(5) Lawyers 165(3) Laziness & Sloth 168(1) Liberty 168(8) Lies & Falsehoods 176(1) Love 177(1) Luck & Good Fortune 178(1) James Madison 179(1) Majorities & Minorities 179(1) Manners 180(1) Marriage 181(3) Massachusetts 184(1) Means & Ends 184(1) Memory 184(1) Mercy & Compassion 184(1) Military & War 185(11) Modesty 196(1) Money 196(1) James Monroe 197(1) Morality & Moralists 198(1) Motives & Intentions 199(1) Native Americans 200(5) Natural Law 205(2) Nature & Wildlife 207(1) Necessity 208(1) New England 208(1) North Carolina 209(1) Thomas Paine 210(1) Passion 211(1) Patriotism 211(6) Patronage & Appointments 217(1) Peace 217(2) Pennsylvania 219(1) Perseverance & Determination 219(1) Pessimism & Optimism 220(1) Philosophy & Ethics 220(1) Pleasure & Pain 221(1) Political Parties & Factions 221(2) Posterity 223(1) Poverty & Economic Inequality 224(2) Power 226(5) Presidency 231(2) Pride & Vanity 233(1) Privacy 234(1) Progress 234(1) Property 234(3) Public Office 237(2) Public Opinion & Prejudice 239(3) Puritanism 242(1) Reason 243(1) Religion 244(19) Revolution & Rebellion 263(17) Rhode Island 280(1) Rights of the People 280(5) Search & Seizure 285(1) Secrecy & Discretion 286(1) Self-Discipline 287(1) Self-Interest 287(1) Self-Reliance 287(1) Separation of Power 288(2) Slavery & Race Relations 290(12) Solitude 302(1) Speeches & Oration 302(1) States' Rights & Federalism 302(3) Taxes 305(3) Theory & Practice 308(1) Time 308(1) Tobacco 309(1) Treason 309(1) Truth 310(1) Tyranny 311(3) Unity 314(3) Value 317(1) Vengence & Revenge 317(1) Vice Presidency 318(1) Virtue & Vice 319(2) War 321(1) George Washington 322(1) Witchcraft 323(2) Women 325(3) Youth 328(1) Names Index 329(10) Subject Index 339