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“If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management of the common concerns of a mighty nation, those doubts have been dispelled.”

John Quincy Adams

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...he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind...The precept of the Koran is,…

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To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

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The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

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Whoever tells the best story wins.

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Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.

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The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

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