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| We have no princes for whom we toil, starve, and bleed; we are the most perfect society now existing in the world |
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| J Hector St. John de Crevecoeur |
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| Here individuals of all nations are melted together into a new race of men, whose labors and prosterity will one day cause great changes in the world |
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| J Hector St. John de Crevecoeur |
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| This unknown man is the representative of a race to which the future of the new world belongs Ð a relentless, rational, and adventurous race |
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| For 50 years, it has been constantly repeated to the inhabitants of America that they form the only religious, enlightened and free people. They see that up now, democratic institutions have prospered among them; they therefore have an immense opinion of themselves, and they are not far from believing they form a species apart in the human race |
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| The United States of America, -- bounded on the north by the North Pole; on the south by the Antarctic Region; on the east by the first chapter of the book of Genesis and on the west by the Day of Judgment. The Supreme Ruler of the Universe É has marked out the line this nation must follow and our duty must be done. America is destined to be the light of the world |
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| We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?... He owns a large part of the world, by right of possessing it; and all the rest by right of wanting it, and intending to have it |
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| We shall be as a city on upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us |
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| We must delight in each other; make otherÕs conditions our ownÉ So we shall keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace |
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| There is a two fold liberty, natural (I mean our nature is now corrupt) and civil or federal |
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| If you will be satisfied to enjoy civil and lawful liberties, such as Christ allows you, then you will quietly and cheerfully submit unto that authority which is set over youÉ for your good |
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| Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry |
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| When does the constitutional guarantee compel exception from doing what society thinks necessary for the promotion of some common great end, or from penalty for conduct which appears dangerous to the general |
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| I do not speak for my church on public matters, and my church does not speak for me |
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| Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom |
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| So convenient a thing it is to a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do |
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| Let all men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly |
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| Reading was the only amusement I allowÕd myself. I spent no time in taverns, games, or frolicks of any kind |
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| In a time of injustice Ð the just manÕs proper place is in prison! |
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| How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book? |
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| We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gunÉ his education has been sadly neglected |
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| My greatest skill has been to want but little |
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| Slave drivers of ourselves |
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| Run from those who would do you good |
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| An honest man had hardly need to count more than his ten figures, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest |
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| I will not have my eyes put out and my ears spoiled by [the railroadÕs] smoke and steam and hissing |
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| However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not as bad as you are |
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| Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul |
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| The greater part of what my neighbors call good, I believe in my soul to be bad |
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| There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers |
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| That levying money for or to the use of the Crown by pretense of prerogative, without grant of ParliamentÉ is illegal |
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| That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament |
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| It is proposed that humble application be made for an act of Parliament of Great Britain, by virtue of which one general government may be formed in America |
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| Albany Plan of Union (co-authored by Benjamin Franklin) |
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| They conceive it is essential to British liberty that laws imposing taxes on the people ought not to be make without the consent of representatives chosen by themselves |
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| Petition of the House of Burgresses to the House of Commons |
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| If this be treason, let us make the most of it |
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| I do not know what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! |
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| Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! |
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| Where liberty is, there is my country |
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| Where liberty is not, there is my county |
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| I never tire of reading Paine |
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| Paine? That dirty little atheist |
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| It does not follow that the more natural rights we resign the more security we possess |
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| Long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right |
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| Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Ð Europe regards here as a stranger, and England hath given her warming to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind |
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| Government, like dress, is a badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise |
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| But where says some is the King of America? IÕll tell you Friend, he reigns above and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain |
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| We have it in our power to begin the world all over again |
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| Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance |
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| The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth. ÔTis not the affair of a city, a country, a province, or a kingdom, but of a continent |
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| These are the times that try menÕs souls |
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| The times that try menÕs souls are over |
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| Our great title as AMERICANS |
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| When in countries called civilized we see age going to the work house, and youth to the gallows, something must be wrong with the system of government |
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| Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one |
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| An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannotÉ it will march to the horizon of the world, and it will conquer |
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| It is wrong to say God made rich and poor; He made only male and female; and He gave them the earth for their inheritance |
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| If men were angels no government would be necessary. If men were devils no government would be possible |
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| Let Gentlemen not be told, that it is not safe to reject this government. Wherefore is it not safe? We are told there are dangers, but those dangers are ideal, they cannot be demonstrated |
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| We already hear it whispered in the private circles of those who oppose the new Constitution, that the thirteen states are too great an extent for any general system |
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| It seems to have been reserved to the people of this countryÉ to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force |
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| Dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government |
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| Liberty is to faction what air is to fire |
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| The proposed Constitution, therefore is, neither a national nor a federal constitution, but a composition of both |
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| A nation without a national government is an awful spectacle |
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| These reflections contain a lesson of moderation to all sincere lovers of the Union, and ought to put them upon their guard against hazarding anarchy, [and] civil warÉ in pursuit of what they are not likely to obtain but from time and experience |
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| A republic, if you can keep it |
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