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• Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
• Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to…
• [Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw…
• The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to…
• It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which…
• The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
• If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
• We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
• I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
• The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
• It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to…
• Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

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