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Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most…
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No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad…
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We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober…
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Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind…
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in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses…
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the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we…
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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,…
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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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Must the Christian go around looking for a cross to bear, seeking to suffer? No, insisted Bonhoeffer. Opportunities for bearing crosses will…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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To show a well-founded fear of persecution, an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or…
— John Paul Stevens
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The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say…
— Sarah Harrison
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No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what…
— Russell Brand
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I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind,…
— George Washington
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The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.
— Thomas Paine
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This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely,…
— Elie Wiesel
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That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although…
— Phyllis Bottome
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