Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
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I am not a Virginian, but an American.
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It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth — and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
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“This is all the inheritance I can give to my dear family. The religion of Christ can give them one which will make them rich indeed.”
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
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The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
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