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704 Diplomat Quotes

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

Acquire Acquired Gives Natural
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

Both Done Doubt Every
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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Affairs Betray Calculate Every
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

Current In My Opinion Interest Liable
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

Different Different Opinions Exercise Fallible
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

Abolition Capital Capital Punishment Entire
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Contains Folly Hoped Much
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

Communication Free His Man
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

Any Apt Classes Fill
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

Blessings Effects Internal Itself
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

Commercial Generally Oppressive Shackles
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

Best Country Easy Journey
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The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

Best Evil Form Government
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A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

Fatigue Flattery Great Little
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By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.

Artillery Cavalry Department Estimated
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Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
Constant Ill Preparation Stimulus
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At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

Cause Condition Country Existence
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By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana.

Been Has Been Indian Indiana
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I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

Basis Continue France Friendly
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If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

Ancient Example Find Gigantic
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It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.

Become Corrupt Degenerate Exercising
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National honor is the national property of the highest value.

Highest Honor National Property
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Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.

Commence Complete Did Ever
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Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

Country House Lack Liberty
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Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

Change Essential Europe Experienced
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The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.

America Any Between Civil
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The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.

Alone Contemplation Effect Felt
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The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.

Been Made Payments Productive
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The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

Advantage Best Lands Nation
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The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.

Abuse Alike Among Attack
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To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

Character Free Free People Impose
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It was by one Union that we achieved our independence and liberties, and by it alone can they be maintained.

Achieved Alone Independence Liberties
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A king without power is an absurdity.
Absurdity King Power Without
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It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.

Government Knowledge Makes Many
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The principles and passions of men are always the same and lead to the same result, varying only according to the circumstances in which they are placed.

According Always Circumstances Lead
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
Begin Blade Creating Easier
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Character Imagination Society Solitude
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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Blade Cut Either Grasp
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Democracy Every Every Man Gives
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Bear Cheer Come Good
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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

Dawn Death Delightful Light
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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

About Angry Anything Bring
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

Before Curtain Heart His
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Action Beautiful Less Lovely
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Alone Change Dead Foolish
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

Greatest Homage Pay Truth
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Another Bees Books Carry
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Aim Crime Failure Low
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

Gives Many Nothing Pleasures
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

Emergencies Man Metal Mind
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