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- Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
- William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
- The believer is happy, the doubter is wise.
- Irish Proverb
- The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
- Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
- The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
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