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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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There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money
Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.
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.
The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.
A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.
Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
Honesty is always the best policy.
Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.
We can not guarantee success, we can strive to deserve it.