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The law: It has honored us; may we honor it.

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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

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Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!

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The great wheel of political revolution began to move in America.

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Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

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There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange.

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The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.

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We welcome you to the treasures of science and the delights of learning.

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I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American!

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There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

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It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet there are those who love it!

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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life

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The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

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Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.

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Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.

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Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

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The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

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The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

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We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

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When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.

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On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

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The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

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The principle of free governments adheres to the American soil. It is bedded in it, immovable as its mountains.

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The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn to the sea, And Wickliff's dust shall spread abroad Wide as the waters be.

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Accuracy and diligence are much more necessary to a lawyer than great comprehension of mind or brilliancy of talent.

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Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

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