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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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...I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted…
— Edward Hirsch
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I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t…
— William S. Burroughs
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To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care…
— Alfred Nobel
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The Bible is the light of my understanding, the joy of my heart, the fullness of my hope, the clarified of my…
— William Jones
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My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind
— Thomas Jefferson
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My God, since you are with me and since, by Your will, I must occupy myself with external things, please grant me…
— Brother Lawrence
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My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.
— Dusty Springfield
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Christ has not conquered my affections if He has to compete for my attention.
— Leonard Ravenhill
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England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there.
— Bob Hope
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To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape…
— John Muir
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You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
— Alexander Hamilton
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I never change, except in my affections.
— Oscar Wilde
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