War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once finds it much easier to do it a second and third time till at length it becomes habitual.
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History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny
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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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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
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