When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.

Daniel Webster
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  1. There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.

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  3. A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

  4. The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

  5. The people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people. January 1830

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