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- Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army, which…
- I consider it an indispensible duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to…
- Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a…
- Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble…
- Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one…
- [T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form…
- The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of…
- O most glorious God ... Direct my thoughts, words and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb, and purge my…
- Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels’ should be the slogan of every farmer.
- When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is…
- Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I am heartily disposed…
- The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands…
- Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.
- At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation; and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the…
- In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and…
- I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
- In politics as in religion, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to…
- Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of…
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