One country, one constitution, one destiny.
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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
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Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
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We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to reproduce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country.
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The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.
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Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
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There are persons who constantly clamor. They complain of oppression, speculation, and pernicious influence of wealth. They cry out loudly against all banks and corporations, and a means by which small capitalists become united in order to produce important and beneficial results. They carry on mad hostility against all established institutions. They would choke the fountain of industry and dry all streams.
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It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet there are those who love it!
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I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable."
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Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.
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The law: It has honored us; may we honor it.
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I still live.
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America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.
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Washington is in the clear upper sky.
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Thank God! I—I also—am an American!
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Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades: shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers, a monster watch; and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.
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It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment—Independence now and Independence forever.
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In reference to the Compromise of 1850
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.
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There is nothing so powerful as truth—and often nothing so strange.
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Knowldege, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.
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If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be; If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy, If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will; If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on Earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
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He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
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On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared—a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
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I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
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Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty.
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