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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to…
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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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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
— Virginia Woolf
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We cannot enter into alliance with neighbouring princes until we are acquainted with their designs. We are not fit to lead an…
— Sun Tzu
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Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
— Pope John Paul II
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Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word…
— Alasdair Gray
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It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were…
— Thomas Cole
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Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with…
— James Dwight Dana
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Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up…
— Victor Hugo
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