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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. "
Thomas Jefferson
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" It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. "
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" It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. "
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" For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. "
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" We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "
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" I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. "
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" Delay is preferable to error. "
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" One man with courage is a majority. "
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" Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. "
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" Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other. "
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" One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. "
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" When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. "
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" To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. "
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" Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. "
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" Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. "
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Only
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" The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force. "
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" I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. "
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" There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. "
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" I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad. "
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Find
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" 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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" Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. "
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" But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. "
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" Always take hold of things by the smooth handle. "
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" When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. "
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" The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. "
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" An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. "
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" Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. "
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" 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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" It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. "
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