Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
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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Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
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Liberty only survives when it is defended.
Never cross a man, not afraid to die.
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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Some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.
The welfare of the people has always been the alibi of tyrants.