All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

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Thomas Jefferson

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1066 He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.
1076 War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
1080 The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
1109 If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
1081 The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

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