As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
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Obey this may be right but beware of reverence. Government is nothing but regulated force force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.William Godwin
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
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They held it their duty to live but for their country.
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One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.
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In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.
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