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- Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
- I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by…
- Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good…
- The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be…
- Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
- Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within…
- Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
- I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
- As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
- Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of…
- It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
- I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
- It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must…
- In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on…
- Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter…
- Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
- The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and…
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