"Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail."

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"Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail."

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"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."

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"When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one."

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"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."

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"There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me."

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"I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another."

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"A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be."

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"I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work."

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"To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. Tosay that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is tosay they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels,no soul. I cannot reason otherwise .. . without plunginginto the fathomless abyss of dreams and phantasms. I amsatisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things whichare, without tormenting or troubling myself aboutthose which may indeed be, but of which I have noevidence."

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"Thomas Jefferson asked himself "In what country on earth would you rather live He first answered "Certainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. But he continued "which would be your second choice His answer "France."

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"He who knows best knows how little he knows."

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