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356 Posts by foundingfather
356 Posts by foundingfather
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet an enemy.
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force, Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
Encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one and to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
All see and most admire the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it.
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