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• Truth springs from argument amongst friends. -- David Hume (1711-1776)
• Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
  -- Rousseau...
• If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance
  let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?...
• A good name lost is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.
  -- J. Hawe...
• Art may make a suit of clothes, but Nature must produce a man.
  -- David Hume, "Essays: The Epicurean," 15...
• Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It merely exists in the mind which contemplates them.
  David Hume [1757]...
• The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.
  -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)...
• Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
  -- David Hume...
• Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
  -- Henry David Thoreau...