These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

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Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.

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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.

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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.

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When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

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There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

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Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

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