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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may…
— Bertrand Russell
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Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in…
— Samuel Johnson
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Dear Sir: I will wish to establish my name as the best Ethiopian songwriter. But I am not encouraged in undertaking this…
— Stephen Foster
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
— William Cowper
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And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have…
— Herman Melville
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Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.
— Raoul Dufy
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"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word…
— Charles Dickens
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After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance:…
— Arturo Toscanini
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Fury said to a mousethat he met in the houselet us both go to law; I will prosecute youlet there be no…
— Lewis Carroll
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My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.
— Peter O'Toole
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