Quote #19

I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. 'What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.'

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  1. The law: It has honored us; may we honor it.
  2. I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
  3. Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
  4. Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty.
  5. Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
  6. Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades: shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers, a monster watch; and the den…
  7. Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on Earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
  8. The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interest…

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