A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

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The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself,...

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself,...

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into...

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into...

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a...

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a...

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to...

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to...

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every...

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every...

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an...

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an...

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which...

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which...

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a...

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a...

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit...

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit...

I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my...

I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my...

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this...

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this...

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this...

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this...

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be...

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be...

I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold...

I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold...

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible...

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible...