The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
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I join you, therefore, in sincere congratulations that this den of the priesthood is at length broken up, and that a Protestant Popedom is no longer to disgrace the American history and character
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Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity.
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