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- The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for,…
- I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.
- One's god dictates the kind of law one implements and also controls the application and development of that law over time. Given enough time, all…
- If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by…
- It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.
- May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants-while…
- A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt [the…
- Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly…
- 'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it…
- 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…
- If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when…
- No compact among men . . . can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words,…
- The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar…
- The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a…
- Let me now ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. ... The common and continual…
- It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves…
- Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the…
- Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.
- When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.
- Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof.…
- I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every…
- There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily
- A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils
- To cash paid for saddlery, a letter case, maps, glasses, etc etc etc. for the use of my Command: 29 pounds 13 shillings and sixpence...…
- One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of…
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
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