Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
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A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people.Henry Clay
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A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life.
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We kind of saw it coming because it's an emotional night but at the same time we did beat them before, ... As a team we just hung in there. They scared us but we knew it would come.
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Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
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Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
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