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"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."
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"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."
"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."
"I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us."
"An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry."
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories."
"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way."
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"One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."
"In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech."
"Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids."
"When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes."
"All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State."
"Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States."
"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."
"Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty."
"First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf."
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