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• Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of…
• A book is the only immortality.
• Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
• The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love…
• No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.
• We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
• I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a…
• Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power…
• Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
• The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.
• We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.
• Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for…

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