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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

"One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country."

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
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"It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn."

"Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him."

"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."

"In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question."

"One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason."

"The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself."

"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion."

"Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions."
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