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The American Crisis (1777)
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A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.
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Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS.
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It is the object only of war that makes it honorable. And if there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
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But when the country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.
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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
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Born:
January 29, 1737
Died:
June 8, 1809
(aged 72)
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