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"I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy."
"I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives."
"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."
"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."
"People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world."
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"Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell."
"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
"The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea."
"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man."
"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."
"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
"The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws."
"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago."
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