“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.”
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“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.”
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“I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.”
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“For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth - to know the worst and provide for it.”
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“For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.”
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“It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.”
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“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or g...”
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“When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.”
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“For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.”
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“I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.”
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“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you...”
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“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?”
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“The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.”
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“Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.”
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“I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.”
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“Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.”
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“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”
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“We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation of everything. That country is become a great, m...”
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“The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.”
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“Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and t...”
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“Give me liberty or give me death.”
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