“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.”
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These are the times that try men's souls.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
