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" Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. "
Thomas Jefferson
Liberty
Preservation
Only
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" The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. "
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" The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. "
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" In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also. "
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" Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. "
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Reading
" The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed. "
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Right
Power
" I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. "
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Strength
Hope
" Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. "
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May
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Reason
" History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. "
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Bad
Government
" The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. "
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Government
Republican
" Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. "
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Achieving
Goal
Help
" In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. "
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Virtue
Humor
Good
" Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "
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Experience
Best
Tyranny
" It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. "
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You
Wealth
Tranquility
" If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. "
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Government
Become
Care
" Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted. "
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Present
Will
Things
" I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. "
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History
Past
Better
" Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. "
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His
Begins
Politics
" Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. "
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Body
Tyranny
People
" Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do. "
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Talk
Done
About
" No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it. "
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Man
Out
Will
" As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also. "
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Now
Fight
Men
" I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. "
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Knowledge
Way
Truth
" Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. "
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Moment
Without
Government
" In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. "
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Liberty
Country
Age
" When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. "
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Large
Europe
Corrupt
" I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. "
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Man
Tyranny
Over
" I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. "
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Believe
Doing
Doing Good
" That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. "
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Every Man
Government
" I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad. "
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Find
Good