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- To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.
- I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed…
- It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
- The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they…
- If they are good workmen, they may be of Asia, Africa, or Europe. They may be Mohometans, Jews or Christians of any Sect, or they…
- Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a…
- Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive…
- Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and…
- A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence…
- If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by…
- Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of…
- The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.
- My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners…
- The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation,…
- If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when…
- Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and…
- Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior…
- When Men are irritated, and the Passions inflamed, they fly hastily and cheerfully to Arms; but after the first emotions are over, to expect, among…
- Integrity and firmness is all I can promise; these, be the voyage long or short, never shall forsake me though I be deserted by all…
- Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to…
- The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any…
- Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.
- If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside might possibly endanger…
- Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable.…
- The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.
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