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- To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.
- The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion
- Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive…
- The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use…
- If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.
- Upon the whole I doubt whether the Benefits of opposition to the Constitution opposition to the Constitution will not ultimately be productive of more good…
- May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants-while…
- No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be…
- I am now . . . on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern . . . . But as it has been a…
- The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.
- May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and…
- It is . . . [the citizens] choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable and miserable as…
- Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless…
- This Government, the offspring of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the…
- 'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it…
- My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon…
- If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when…
- [T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form…
- The General most earnestly requires, and expects, a due observance of those articles of war, established for the government of the army which forbid profane…
- It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves…
- Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the Constitution be…
- We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought…
- To place any dependence upon Militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff ... If I was called upon to declare upon Oath , whether…
- Almighty and eternal Lord God, the great Creator of heaven and earth, and the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; look down from…
- A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step...
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