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" Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. "

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" Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. "

" The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it. "

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" Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. "

" Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. "

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" All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. "

" The happiness of society is the end of government. "

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" I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case. "

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" The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws. "

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" Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. "

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" I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. "

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" The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. "

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