To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

Thomas Jefferson

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To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

When I give I give myself.

The empires of the future will be empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

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