To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

William Hazlitt

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It is a waste of energy to follow anybody.

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The future depends on what we do in the present.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

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To know and yet think we do not know is the highest attainment; not to know and yet think we do know is a disease.

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