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The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.
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The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own…
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It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause…
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Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.
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The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.
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The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection,…
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The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
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The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the…
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Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on…
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The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and…
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A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of…
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But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be…
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
— Lord Byron
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While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our…
— Bertrand Russell
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My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
— Swami Vivekananda
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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not…
— William Blake
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My detention has been worth every second if only to prove my innocence to those who truly matter most my countrymen.
— Joseph Estrada
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Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that…
— Robert Emmet
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A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this…
— Thomas Francis Meagher
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I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all…
— Virchand Gandhi
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Each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other-male in female, female in male, white in black, and black in white. We…
— James A. Baldwin
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I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for…
— F. Sionil José
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