"It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice"
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"I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me."
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"The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government"
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"The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society."
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"Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another."
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"Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do."
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"It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most."
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"Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation."
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"No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority."
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"It is important to strengthen the State governments; and as this cannot be done by any change in the Federal Constitution (for the preservation of that is all we need contend for), it must be done by the States themselves, erecting such barriers at the constitutional line as cannot be surmounted either by themselves or by the General Government. The only barrier in their power is a wise government. A weak one will lose ground in every contest."
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"It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual."
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"To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by Locke, Tracy, and Stewart. At what age of the Christian church this heresy of immaterialism, this masked atheism, crept in, I do not know. But heresy it certainly is."
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"All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution."
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"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature."
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"The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them."
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"Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong."
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"I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures."
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"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature."
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"I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens."
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"I cannot live without books."
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