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• If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
• Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
• Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
• The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the…
• America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
• All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is…
• Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
• Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
• So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be…
• America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.
• Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the…
• From the day of the Declaration...they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the…

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