Quote #34

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

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  1. When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragment…
  2. There is nothing so powerful as truth-and often nothing so strange.
  3. The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
  4. Fearful concatenation of circumstances.
  5. I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; …
  6. A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the utte…
  7. The gentleman has not seen how to reply to this, otherwise than by supposing me to have advanced the doctrine that a national debt is a nat…
  8. Let us not be pygmies in a case that calls for men.

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