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" Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. "

Thomas Jefferson

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" It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. "

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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. "

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" I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. "

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" To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education. "

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" Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. "

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" I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. "

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" Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. "

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" Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do. "

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" It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. "

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" My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. "

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" Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. "

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" Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. "

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" A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. "

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" 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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" Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. "

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" The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. "

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