If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.
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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.