"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials."

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"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials."

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"As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this."

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"Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing."

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"Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community."

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"We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it."

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"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind."

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"Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds."

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"A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings."

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"Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes."

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"As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union."

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"Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss."

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