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I Have Seen Enough Of One War Never To Wish To See Another.

In The Environment, Every Victory Is Temporary, Every Defeat Permanent.

We Confide In Our Strength, Without Boasting Of It, We Respect That Of Others, Without Fearing It.

The Policy Of The American Government Is To Leave Their Citizens Free, Neither Restraining Nor Aiding Them In Their Pursuits.

May [our Declaration Of Independence] Be To The World, What I Believe It Will Be (to Some Parts Sooner, To Others Later, But Finally To All), The Signal Of Arousing Men To Burst The Chains Under Which Monkish Ignorance And Superstition Had Persuaded Them To Bind Themselves, And To Assume The Blessings And Security Of Self-government... All Eyes Are Opened, Or Opening, To The Rights Of Man.