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It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.

James F. Cooper

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Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
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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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If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
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There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.
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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.
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Christ, in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are not our own, we can have no just claim.
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In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.
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Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.
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We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true though happily for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned, are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating, if not excusing its crimes.
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Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.
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I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.
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