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" I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. "

Thomas Jefferson

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" The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. "

Thomas Jefferson

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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. "