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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

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Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupt...more

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We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

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No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

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No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colo...more