"Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics."
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"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
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"The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth."
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"Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world."
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"The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges..."
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"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself."
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"I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong."
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"But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter."
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"What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ."
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"What is most important of this grand experiment, the United States? Not the election of the first president but the election of its second president. The peaceful transition of power is what will separate this country from every other country in the world."
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"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
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"Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength."
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"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light."
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"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon."
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"Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth, and pursue it steadily. Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation."
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"Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble."
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"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."
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"Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves."
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"I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them."
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"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."
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