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• Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself.
  Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?...
• A conservative wears suspenders as well as an outside belt, and also an inside secret belt, for his money.
  He is against the Democrats for what they stand for and against the Republicans because they don't stand for what they should....
• SATAN, n. One of the Creator's lamentable mistakes, repented in sashcloth and axes.
  Being instated as an archangel, Satan made himself multifariously objectionable and was finally expelled from Heaven....
• No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to.
  It is by dividing and subdividing these republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself...
• He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppressio
  for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach unto himself....
• He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppressio
  for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself....
• Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views.
  His language to the young men at Philadelphia is the most abominable and degrading that could fall from the lips of the first magistrate of an independent people, and particularly from a Revolutionary patriot....
• Our second completely true news item was sent to me by Mr.
  H. Boyce Connell Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., where he is involved in a law firm....