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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When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.

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You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, invented and put into the papers whatever might serve the [government] ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper.

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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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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

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The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

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When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

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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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A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

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