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“Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.”

Thomas Paine

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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

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