Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

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We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

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How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

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If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus'd among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security.

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It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

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Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

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