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"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."
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🇺🇸Thomas Jefferson
Politics
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."
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🇺🇸James Henry Hammond
Politics
1807–1864
"I think then I may safely conclude and I firmly believe that American slavery is not only not a sin but especially commanded by God through Moses and approved by Christ through His Apostles."
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🇺🇸James K. Polk
Politics
1795–1849
"With me it is emphatically true that the presidency is "no bed of roses."
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"Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (1775); Jefferson composed the first draft of this document, but the final work was done by John Dickinson, working with his original draft. Full text online"
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"In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion."
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"A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written."
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"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
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"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."
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