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"Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author"
"Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse."
"My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind."
"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."
"Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power."
"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one."
"There was never a good war, or a bad peace."
"A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate."
"I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free."
"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."
"There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard."
"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."
"A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all."
"Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose."
"Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him."
"Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.""
"Liberty is the breath of life to nations."
"My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein."
"The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty."
"That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive."
