On the record
It must be one which your children can look at with a filial and honorable regard for their fathers’ uprightness.
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So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
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The dearest and most precious of all human rights is the right of private judgment in matters of religion.
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