Trusting Too Much To Others Care Is

When Confronted With Two Courses Of Action I Jot Down On A Piece Of Paper All The Arguments In Favor Of Each One, Then On The Opposite Side I Write The Arguments Against Each One. Then By Weighing The Arguments Pro And Con And Cancelling Them Out, One Against The Other, I Take The Course Indicated By What Remains.

I Think Opinions Should Be Judged By Their Influences And Effects; And If A Man Holds None That Tend To Make Him Less Virtuous Or More Vicious, It May Be Concluded That He Holds None That Are Dangerous, Which I Hope Is The Case With Me.

If Time Be Of All Things The Most Precious, Wasting Time Must Be The Greatest Prodigality.

Friends And Neighbors Complain That Taxes Are Indeed Very Heavy, And If Those Laid On By The Government Were The Only Ones We Had To Pay, We Might The More Easily Discharge Them; But We Have Many Others, And Much More Grievous To Some Of Us. We Are Taxed Twice As Much By Our Idleness, Three Times As Much By Our Pride, And Four Times As Much By Our Folly.

[it Was] The Poverty Caused By The Bad Influence Of The English Bankers On The Parliament Which Has Caused In The Colonies Hatred Of The English And . . . The Revolutionary War.