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• The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a…
• Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
• Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the…
• Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
• All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor…
• Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
• Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit…
• There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with…
• Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
• Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
• Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

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