Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.Thomas Jefferson
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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In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance
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No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
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Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.
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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
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