Your search for "anger management" returned 5 results from 5 Founders.
Benjamin Franklin:"Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass."source: Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736.personal attacks, retaliation, anger management, brotherly kindless
James Monroe:"Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them."source: To George Hay, April 29, 1808.personal attacks, retaliation, anger management, brotherly kindless
William Penn:"Not to be provoked is best: but if moved, never correct till the fume is spent: for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last."source: The Fruits of Solitude, 1693.anger, what to do when provoked, peace-making
Thomas Jefferson:"When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred."source: A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life, February 21, 1825.anger, what to do when provoked, peace-making, to act and not react
Alexander Hamilton:"The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion, or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests. It is a just observation, that the people commonly INTEND the PUBLIC GOOD. This often applies to their very errors. But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend that they always REASON RIGHT about the MEANS of promoting it."source: The Federalist Papers: No. 17good intentions, whims

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