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"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important."
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"In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also."
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"What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends."
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"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
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"Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith."
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"How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?"
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"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."
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"When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish."
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"We need to have a sense of patriotism like Jesus Christ, to the Kingdom first and to our nations second."
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"I would entertain the apparently fading idea that patriotism that serves the self is greed dressed in the garments of liberty and adorned with the fashion accessories of other associated patriotic notions."
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"Real patriotism embraces the wholly immovable belief that without freedom, the essence of the human soul and the life-breath of the human spirit is doomed to perish for lack of space and absence of light."
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"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."
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"...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans."
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"I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary."
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"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."
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"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people."
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"Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other."
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"All authority belongs to the people."
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"Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste."
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"Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital."
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"Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take."
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