In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.
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I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer susceptible of any definition.Thomas Jefferson
Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.
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Taste cannot be controlled by law.
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Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing . . . this enterprise is for the young for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. it shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.
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As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
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