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| I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. | Thomas Jefferson |
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| I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. | John Adams |
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| I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. | Henry David Thoreau |
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| I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life. | Andrew Jackson |
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| I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. | Thomas Jefferson |
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| I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia. | George Rogers Clark |
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| I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign. | James K. Polk |
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| I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. | Thomas Jefferson |
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| I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness. | Henry David Thoreau |
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| I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials. | George Mason |
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| I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city. | George Mason |
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| I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. | William Henry Harrison |
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| I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter. | Daniel Morgan |
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| I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. | Thomas Paine |
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| I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. | William Henry Harrison |
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| I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. | Thomas Jefferson |
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| I can never consent to being dictated to. | John Tyler |
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| I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery. | George Washington |
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| I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King. My republican feelings and principles forbid it; the simplicity of our system of government forbids it. | Andrew Jackson |
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| I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms. | Zebulon Pike |
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