"Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity."
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"In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection," he stated. "Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. ... Do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?"
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"Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices."
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"Read much, but not too many books."
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"Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."
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"Tis easy to see, hard to foresee."
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"Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee."
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"Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter."
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"Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!"
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"We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race; and a literal, slavish following of precedents, as by a justice of the peace, is not for those who at this hour lead the AMERICAN CIVILIZATION."
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"Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital."
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"Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence."
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"The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government."
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"I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country."
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"I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent."
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"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."
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"That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges."
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"Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States."
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"Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more."
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"Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price."
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