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History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, o...more

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I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the ot...more

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My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior c...more

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Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little ca...more

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To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is life for?