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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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