"People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages."
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"I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another. . . . The earth belongs always to the living generations."
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"On July 4th, we renew our commitment to the American Idea-the belief that all men are created equal. We read the Declaration. We tell our kids the history. We remember those who died to protect our country. And along the way, we remind ourselves of why we love it."
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"He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue."
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"Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island."
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"I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend."
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"Leave us to our free election."
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"This liberty is all that I request."
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"Let's all cry peace, freedom, and liberty!"
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"Having my freedom, boast of nothing else."
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"I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause."
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"Who is here so vile that will not love his country?"
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"In right and service to their noble country."
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"America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses."
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"To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers between the general [national] and particular [state] governments."
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"I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions."
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"You see, here in America there's a reason why we celebrate the 4th of July and not April 15th because in America we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it."
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"In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category."
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"Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive."
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