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• The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated…
• To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
• The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all…
• I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind,…
• [Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our…
• The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be…
• I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
• The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating…
• Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.
• To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.
• Make the most of the Indian Hemp Seed and sow it everywhere.
• The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion

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