I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

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But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

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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 robber, or kill a flea.

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In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

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