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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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People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.
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Parody is homage gone sour.
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In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.
— John Milton
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
— Teresa of Avila
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