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And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our ...more

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The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes...was never mine. It is o...more

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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

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Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God if He ever had a chosen people whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substant...more

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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

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If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

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It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the...more

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The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they m...more

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that ...more