The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.Edmund Burke
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
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There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
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Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
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If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.
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