If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.
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Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue
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Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality
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Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization
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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together
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Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government
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There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange
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If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
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Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions
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Every man's life, liberty, and property are in danger when the Legislature is in session.
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I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned
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Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power
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I see nothing in it new and valuable. What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.
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God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it
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The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy
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Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
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I still live.
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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens
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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital
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It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever
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