Keeping an army in America has been nothing but a public nuisance.
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That's what they admire most about the horse, his durability.
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Indeed, Mr. Jefferson, what could be invented to debase the ancient Christianism, which Greeks, Romans, Hebrews and Christian factions, above all the Catholics, have not fraudulently imposed upon the public Miracles after miracles have rolled down in torrents, wave succeeding wave in the Catholic church, from the Council of Nice, and long before, to this day.
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams
From the time we became an independant nation, it was as much a law of nature that this would become our claim as that the Mississippi should flow to sea.
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