"He that speaks much, is much mistaken."
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"July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so"
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"Better to starve free than be a fat slave"
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"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."
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"Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread."
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"I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality."
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"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object."
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"The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation."
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"The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation's history — the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. Pride and patriotism, not less than gratitude, prompt you to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation's destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost."
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"To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement"
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"Freedom is from within."
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"Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved."
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
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"Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?"
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"We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution."
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"In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."
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"But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."
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"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
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"When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality."
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"Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another."
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