“The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.”
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“The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.”
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“The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.”
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“I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.”
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“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”
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“Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.”
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“Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.”
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“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.”
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“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.”
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“Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.”
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“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
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“Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.”
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“Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.”
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