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I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. ↗

— Frank Knox

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God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease. ↗

— Frank Knox

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Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose. ↗

— Frank Knox

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Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty. ↗

— Henry Knox

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Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly. ↗

— Henry Knox

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Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace. ↗

— Henry Knox

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I assume you know what to do with this. That's why you were hired. ↗

— Grant Tinker

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Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry. ↗

— Michael Tippett

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Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination. ↗

— Henry Knox

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The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect. ↗

— Henry Knox

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