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"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity."
"War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself."
"Women are books, and men the readers be."
"If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking."
"Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack."
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. When you're down to nothing, God is up to something. The faithful see the invisible, believe the incredible and then receive the impossible. Where liberty dwells there is my country."
"I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else."
"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors."
"He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security."
"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are."
"Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas."
"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."
"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest."
"Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither."
"Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see."
"In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns."
"Security without liberty is called prison."
"Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature."