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- I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.
- I like to see the people awake and alert.
- Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they…
- Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the…
- The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we…
- I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making…
- I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the…
- Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences…
- Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their…
- I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.
- I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.
- [T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never to see all…
- A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything…
- I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no…
- How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!
- No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what…
- When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet…
- I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further…
- It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in…
- An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them…
- I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all…
- And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is the most legitimate…
- In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important issues. Those accustomed…
- I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
- 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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