A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither
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I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.Thomas Jefferson
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Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
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