"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."
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"Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason."
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"Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances."
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"Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming."
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"Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you."
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"If you do tomorrow what you did today , you will get tomorrow what you got today"
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"A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin"
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"A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother."
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
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"Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates."
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"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn."
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"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
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"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."
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"Fear God, and your enemies will fear you."
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"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."
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"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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"Lost time is never found again."
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"Well done is better than well said."
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"The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy."
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"Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords."
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