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• Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves withthe power which knowledge gives.
  -- James Madiso...
• A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on Earth.
  .. and what no just government should refuse. -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, Paris, Dec....
• I believe in the Divine Rights of Sysops.
• If a jury in a criminal trial stays out for more than twenty-four hours, it is certain to vote acquittal, save in those instances where it votes guilty.
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• The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done.
  Calculate that one rebellion in 13 states in the course of 11 years, is but one for each state in a century and a half....
• Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. -- Napoleon I