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 a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

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Thomas Jefferson

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1055 He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.
1065 War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
1069 The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
1099 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.
1071 The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

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