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- What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not…
- I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions,…
- We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition,…
- While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God alone…
- Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive…
- We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems,…
- A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence…
- 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…
- May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and…
- The inducements of interest for observing [neutral] conduct . . . has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature…
- This Government, the offspring of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the…
- My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon…
- I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed to…
- The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of…
- Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior…
- At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The growing infirmities of…
- The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any…
- I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement,…
- We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought…
- It has always been a source of serious reflection and sincere regret with me that the youth of the United States should be sent to…
- At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation; and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the…
- The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to…
- The great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and…
- Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and…
- Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
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