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  • It is better to be alone than in bad company.

  • Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

  • It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

  • My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.



  • Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

  • To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

  • Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

  • Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

  • I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

  • My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

  • There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

  • Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

  • Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

  • Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

  • primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.


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