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Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

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The happiness of society is the end of government.

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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

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Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

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Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

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Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

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My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.

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Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

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There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

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At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

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The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

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