In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
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I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
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Make the revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions
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