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There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. ...more

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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

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The happiness of society is the end of government.