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"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
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"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
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