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"Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct."
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"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."
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"Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us."
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"Gloom and darkness are temporary. Joy comes in the morning."
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"I don't think people can live without hope. What oxygen is to the lungs, hope is to our survival in this world. And the Bible is filled with hope."
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"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
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"What a thrilling future for those of us who know that some day we will populate the kingdom of God."
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"There is not only the present, but there is a future waiting for us as well."
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"Even if the circumstances around you are like darkness, believe that God will give you light."
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"There will come a day when your vision will be fulfilled."
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"This should be the motto of every follower of Jesus Christ. Never stop praying no matter now dark and hopeless it may seem."
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"Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States."
People
"The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress."
Power
"Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?"
Faith
"The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched."
History
"Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers."
Man
"Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate."
Legal
"I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate."
Constitution
"Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles."
Fact
"Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day."
History
"You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions."
People
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