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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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