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" Always take hold of things by the smooth handle. "

Thomas Jefferson

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" All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. "

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" I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country. "

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" Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. "

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" An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. "

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" 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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" I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. "

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" How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. "

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