"The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living."

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"What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better."

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"One on God's side is a majority."

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"The heart is the best reflective thinker."

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"To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship"

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"Aristocracy is always cruel."

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"Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion."

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"Power is every stealing from the many to the few."

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"Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise."

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"What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action."

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"Responsibility educates."

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"Revolutions are not made, they come."

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"Revolutions never go backward."

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"What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind."

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"If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause."

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"Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people."

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"The keener the want the lustier the growth."

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"On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations."

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"Christianity is a battle not a dream."

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"Eternal vigilance is the price of libertypower is ever stealing from the many to the few. The hand entrusted with power becomes the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot: only by unintermitted Agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity. "

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