Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
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He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to hundreds of children at Halloween as an adult from childhood assistance he received from adults, particularly after his parents divorced, to saying I challenge you to be a caring adult in someone's life ... Great times call forth great leaders.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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History, by apprising (men) of the past, will enable them to judge of the future, it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations
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