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"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened."
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"Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity."

"There are things so horrible that even the dark is afraid of them. Most people don't know this and this is just as well because the world could not really operate if everyone stayed in bed with the blankets over their head, which is what would happen if people knew what horrors lay a shadow's width away."

"It's not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it's the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat."
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"I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary."

"Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other."

"Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste."

"Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take."
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