Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own.
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The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.
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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.
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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.
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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle; and that almost every man is more or less, under its influence.
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