Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
GEORGE WASHINGTONHappiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
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I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from my mom.
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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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The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
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Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
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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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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people.
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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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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
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