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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
- Ground
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- Nov 07, 2020
I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
- Conscience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
- Free Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
- Despises
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- Nov 07, 2020
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
- Derive
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
- Guard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
- Guide
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
- Effectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it - but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.
- Faction
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- Nov 07, 2020
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020