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The Revolution was effected before the war commenced.
The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people...
The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true.
They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all...
My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
-- John Adams (1735-1826) 2nd US President, 1789 le...
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths of which atheism would deny.
-- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) "The Spectator, 239" (8...
United we stand, divided we fall. -- Aesop (620-560 BCE) Aesop's Fable
"The Four Oxen and the Lio...
Any excuse will serve a tyrant. -- Aesop (620-560 BCE) Aesop's Fable
"The Wolf and the Lamb...
I will not steal a victory...The end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue.
-- Alexander III (The Great) (35...
Let a woman show deference, not being a slave to her husband
let her show she is ready to be guided, not coerced....
Race involves the inheritance of similar physical variations by large groups of mankind, but its psychological and cultural connotations, if they exist, have not been ascertained by science.
...Anth...
Liberty has never yet lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.
With the change of our government, our manners and sentiments will change. -- Fisher Ame...

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