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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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“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”
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“How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.”
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“What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.”
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“What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.”
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“Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.”
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“External vigilance is the price of liberty.”
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“Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.”
― Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
― Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.”
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“Christianity is a battle, not a dream.”
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“What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.”
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