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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. – Thomas Jefferson

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? – Thomas Jefferson

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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other. – Thomas Jefferson

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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. – Robert A. Heinlein

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War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. – George Orwell

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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. – Benjamin Franklin

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