"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
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"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite."
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"We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty."
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"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
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"All Freemasonry should be disbanded in America because our organization has been infiltrated by the Illuminati and they have bad intention for America and the World."
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"Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion."
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"There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained."
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"It rarely happens otherwise than that a thorough-faced coquette dies in celibacy, as a punishment for her attempts to mislead others, by encouraging looks, words, or actions, given for no other purpose than to draw men on to make overtures that they may be rejected."
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"Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my heart by Thy Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of Thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in Thy fear, and dying in Thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of Thee and Thy son, Jesus Christ."
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"Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence."
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"Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice."
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"The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity."
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"the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph."
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"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few."
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"99% of failures come from people who make excuses."
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"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake."
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"Discipline is the soul of an army."
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"One's god dictates the kind of law one implements and also controls the application and development of that law over time. Given enough time, all non-Christian systems of law self-destruct in a fit of tyranny."
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"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves."
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"A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?"
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