What is most important of this grand experiment, the United States? Not the election of the first president but the election of its second president. The peaceful transition of power is what will separate this country from every other country in the world.

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The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

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Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.

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However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

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There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money

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Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there.

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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

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Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

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You have only one way to convince others, listen to them.

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The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.

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