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"I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate."
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"The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."
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"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
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"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
"As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children."
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