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"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."
War
"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."
Home
"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."
Government
"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"
Learning
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
Enemy
"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."
Home
"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."
War
"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."
Government
"War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits."
Government
"By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt."
Inequality
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"He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind."
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Personal Development
"You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by."
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Personal Development
"Reading is an activity of civilized beings."
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Personal Development
"Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!"
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Personal Development
"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."
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Personal Development
"Dare to read."
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Personal Development
"The greatest treasures are books."
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Personal Development
"Do not be ready to listen to anyone who is ready to show you your past mistakes instead, be ready to listen to someone who is ready to show you the untold lessons from your past mistakes so that you may be able to skip your future mistakes."
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Personal Development
"I've often heard it said, a preacherMight learn, with a comedian for a teacher."
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Personal Development
"We do not need to teach our children how to fight. We need to teach our children the miraculousness and transientness of life."
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Personal Development
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