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The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.

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The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.
The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own…
It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause…
Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.
The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection,…
The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the…
Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on…
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and…
A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of…
But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be…

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We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations… — Franklin P. Adams
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. — Aphra Behn
I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready… — Abdallah II
We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the… — Martin Van Buren
The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment. — Tony Campolo
American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a… — William J. Clinton
Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and… — Elihu Root
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the… — Mercy Otis Warren
The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we… — Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign… — Giuseppe Mazzini

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