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• Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
• The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless,…
• Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for…
• I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which…
• Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
• Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
• All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.
• The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces…
• The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.
• I'd rather be right than President.
• An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
• A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers,…

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