"My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image."

Thought, Thoughts, Future, Past, Present

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"My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image."

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"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."

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"We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity."

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

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"He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil."

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