"The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education."
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"SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have puzzled me not a little, had it not been for the model with which you accompanied it, of Doctor Rush's answer to a similar inquiry. I live so much like other people, that I might refer to ordinary life as a history of my own. Like my friend the Doctor, I have lived temperately, eating very little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principle diet."
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"There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants."
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"We might have been a free and great people together."
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"Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better."
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"Health is the requisite after morality"
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"My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind"
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"Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends."
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"The hole and the patch should be commensurate."
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"Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the right."
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"Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself."
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"Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves."
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"Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will."
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"One had rather have no opinion than a false one."
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"It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible."
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"Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement."
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"From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs."
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"I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught but I hold in the most profound detestation and execration the corruptions of it which have been invented."
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"Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul."
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"We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body"
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