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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is…
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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets…
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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