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"The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue."
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"How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!"
"To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up."
"Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about."
"Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G."
"Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety."
"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."
"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."
"Then, you were supposed to discover the city, where they were. But because somebody like skeletons. And that they discovered that they were at a cheap price, we used too many skeletons all over the place, and the public got the wrong message."
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"It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty."
"By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana."
"To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people."
"In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence."
"From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves."
"By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry."
"The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong."
"The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil."
"Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!"
"The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation."
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