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“ I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs. ”

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The happiness of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind; she is destined to become the safe and venerable asylum of virtue, of honesty, of tolerance, and quality and of peaceful liberty.

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When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

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Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

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True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.

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