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Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!

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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

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Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.

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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.

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You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever...

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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

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A King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.

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The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the common duties of life

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Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

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Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

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Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third ["Treason!" cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

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We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power…The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

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