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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with th

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. – Thomas Jefferson

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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. – Thomas Jefferson

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A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. – Thomas Jefferson

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Its a good thing we dont get all the government we pay for. – Will Rogers

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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. – Samuel Johnson

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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. – Winston Churchill

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