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Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

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I can't see no great difference atween givin' up territory afore a war, out of a dread of war, and givin' it up after a war, because we can't help it-unless it be that the last is the most manful and honourable.
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Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.
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New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States.
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The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.
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Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
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