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- This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the…
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- Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, bu…
- Twenty years from now, you will be more disappoint…
- Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet w…
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- We in America do not have government by the majori…
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- Were the home counties to deliver up their arms, t…
- Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and…
- What a glorious morning this is!…
- What was the primary and principal object in the i…
- What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: i…
- What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to preve…
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