"A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country."
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"Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments."
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"Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks."
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"The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty."
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"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for."
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"He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland."
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"For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better."
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"A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master."
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"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
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"When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen."
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"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."
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"Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice."
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"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
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"Where liberty is, there is my country."
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"All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. The palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them."
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"In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all."
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"We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support."
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"America is not just a country, it's an idea."
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"Necessity never made a good bargain."
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"A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad."
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