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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. – Thomas Jefferson

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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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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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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. – Thomas Jefferson

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There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite. – Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln – the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War – was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone – no ancestors, no fellows, no successors. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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Nothing external to you has any power over you. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. – Lucille Ball

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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything. – Anthony Trollope

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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. – John Lubbock

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