The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
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He who knows best knows how little he knows.
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No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
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No one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in its effect towards supporting free and good government.
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I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.
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A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
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