Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.
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I had laid it down as a law for my conduct while in office, and hitherto scrupulously observed, to accept of no present beyond a book, a pamphlet, or other curiosity of minor value as well to avoid imputation on my motives of action, as to shut out.
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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
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None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
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