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- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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
From an early period, I had the happiness to rank among the foremost in the American Revolution. In the affection and confidence of the people, I am proud to say, I have a great share.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
May the States be so bound to each other as forever to defy European politics. Upon that union, their consequence, their happiness, will depend. This is the first wish of a heart more truly American than words can express.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.
- Executed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any commands which Congress may have for me shall be cheerfully executed by one of their earliest soldiers, whose happiness it is to think that, at a less smiling moment, he had the honor to be adopted by America, and whose blood, exertions, and affections will in her good times, as they have been in her worst, be entirely at her service.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more I see, hear, and think in Europe, the more I wish for every measure that can ensure to the United States dignity, power, and public confidence.
- Foolishly
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is foolishly thought by some that democratical constitutions will not, cannot, last; that the States will quarrel with each other; that a king, or at least a nobility, are indispensable for the prosperity of a nation.
- Continuance
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- Nov 07, 2020
May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of her noble exertions in continuance of those principles which have placed her so high in the annals of history and among the nations of the earth.
- Ever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Charleston is one of the best built, handsomest, and most agreeable cities that I have ever seen.
- Attended
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the same rights as the richest individual, or landed proprietor, in the country.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020