From the ArcaMax Publishing, History & Quotes Newsletter:

What subsists today by violence, continues tomorrow by acquiescence, and is perpetuated by tradition, till at last the hoary abuse shakes the grayhairs of antiquity at us, and gives itself out as the wisdom of ages.

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All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.

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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

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I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do