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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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