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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

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To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible.

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Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not fraud and hypocrisy the religion of the man who calls himself a democrat, and hold his fellow-man in bondage?

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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.

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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

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It is of no use to discover our own faults and infirmities unless the discovery prompts up to amendment.

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Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: July 11th, 1767

Died: February 23rd, 1848

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