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“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”

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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

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