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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 join us in…
- If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
- Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in…
- what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and…
- The price if freedom us eternal vigilance.
- Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and…
- Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty…
- To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the…
- Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a…
- When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives…
- Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural…
- I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely…
- If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of…
- The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of…
- The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids…
- The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that…
- I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means…
- The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More…
- To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which…
- The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.
More Us Quotes
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle