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"In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth."
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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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"Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way."
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"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!"
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"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
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"The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific."
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"The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government."
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"As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss."
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"The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch."
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"Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves."
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"In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world."
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"The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government."
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"In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same."
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"On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act."
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"One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them."
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