"Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us."
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"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.“
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"To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches."
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"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes."
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"He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death."
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"But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing."
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"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."
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