"There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard."

Diplomacy, Experience, Cure, Error, Favors

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"There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard."

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"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."

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"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light."

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"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it."

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"Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals."

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"The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government."

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"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth."

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"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."

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"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

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