I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none.
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.