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I would rather be right than be President.

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How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity—unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

It is the thing protected, not the instrument of protection, that involves you in war.

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