The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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Is it popular to pay our debts, to do justice, to defend the injured and insulted country, to protect the aged and the infant, and give top liberty a land to live in Then must taxation, as the means by which these things are done, be popular likewi
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Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness
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I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils.
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Man is not the enemy of Man, but through the medium of a false system of government.
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