As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

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To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

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It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

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Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson in Notes on the State of Virginia
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

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The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

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