I feel happy that twenty-five years of vicissitudes in my fortune, and firmness in my principles, warrant me in repeating here that if, to recover her rights, it is sufficient for a nation to resolve to do so, she can preserve them only by rigid fidelity to her civil and moral duties.
タグ: moral, feel, happy, me

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I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with them for a length of time dangers, sufferings, and both good and evil fortune.
タグ: experience, time, good, friendship
Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.
タグ: ambition, people, you, love
True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.
タグ: right, nation, true, people
Nothing hurts so much the interest and reputation of America as to hear of their intestine quarrels.
タグ: hear, america, reputation, nothing
Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.
タグ: laws, clear, must, uniform
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