- All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
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- America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
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- Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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- Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
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- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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- Patience and perserverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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- Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
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