A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

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When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

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The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.

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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

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To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

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To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

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Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

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The federal government is our servant, not our master.

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Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

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It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

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