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- Heart
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It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
- Most
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When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.
- Heart
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I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs.
- Appeared
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I am able to say that I was very much liked at the school. I even had quite some ascendancy over my comrades, and as soon as I appeared in the school yard, I was surrounded by young friends, most of them bigger than I, but who were quite willing to give the appearance of disciples; they would have defended me furiously if necessary.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider's whip would make obedient. I depicted this perfect horse throwing his rider at the sight of the whip.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have found a unique opportunity to distinguish myself and to learn my trade. I am a general officer in the army of the United States of America. My zeal in their cause and my frankness have won their trust.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.
- Fortune
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heart has always been truly convinced that in serving the cause of America, I am fighting for the interests of France.
- Confederation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the Continental Union. Depend upon it: there lies the danger for America. This last stroke is wanting, and unless the states be strongly bound to each other, we have to fear from British and, indeed, from European politics.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020