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• No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad…
• Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most…
• We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober…
• We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
• Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind…
• I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
• It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take…
• in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses…

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