If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

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Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.

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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

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Let us see what love can do.

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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

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Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

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No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences

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