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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

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Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least pa...more

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If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully

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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly...more

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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

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It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of lib...more

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I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

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As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the ...more

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Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically r...more