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"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."
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"History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn."
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"All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter."
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"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
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"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."
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"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper."
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"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."
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"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."
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"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts."
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"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people."
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