Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity.
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A government big enough to supply you with everything you need is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.... The course of history shows that as the government grows, liberty decreases.Thomas Jefferson
The construction applied ... to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power ... ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument.
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
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The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
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All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution
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