"The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die."
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"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."
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"The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury."
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"We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it."
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"If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst."
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"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die."
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"The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions."
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"One of the difficulties in bringing about change in an organization is that you must do so through the persons who have been most successful in that organization, no matter how faulty the system or the organization is. To such persons, you see, it is the best of all possible organizations, because look who was selected by it ad look who succeeded most in it. Yet, these are the very people through whom we must bring about improvements."
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"[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions."
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"This tribe of black gentry work more effectually against us, than the enemy's arms. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties, and the great cause we are engaged in. It is much to be lamented that each State, long ere this, has not hunted them down as pests to society, and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America."
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"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation."
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"Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection."
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"History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government."
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"If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash."
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"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."
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"When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly."
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"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
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"It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos."
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"We must consult our means rather than our wishes."
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"... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance."
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