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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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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
— Baruch Spinoza
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To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Cap and trade generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up…
— James Hansen
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Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense.
— Donald J. Boudreaux
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The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw…
— H. L. Mencken
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It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the…
— Edward Everett
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Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at…
— James Madison
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It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but…
— Adam Smith
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