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"I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it."
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"My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it."
"Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel."
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"It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out."
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"Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe."
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"My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein."
"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."
"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."
"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
"As mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."
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