We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency.
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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
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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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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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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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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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