Would the honest patriot, in ...

Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world\'s best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.
Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.
 Thomas Jefferson

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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
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Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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