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• Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
• The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.
• Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor…
• While we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess, and to observe, the Religion which we believe to be of…
• Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.
• How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose…
• Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all -…
• It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising…
• The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.
• The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be…
• Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that…
• If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood.

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