Great Throughts Treasury

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Thomas Jefferson

Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.

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Boldness | Existence | Question | Reason |

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Thomas Paine

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

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Boldness | Conduct | Cowardice | Example | Little | Men | Principles | Property | Rights | Sense | Tyranny | Wealth | Will | Wrong | Afraid |

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Voltaire, pen name of François-Marie Arouet NULL

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

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Boldness | People |

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Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

If people did not complement one another there would be little society.

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Boldness | Passion | Strength |

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Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document: it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age

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Boldness | Business | Difficulty | Law | Business |

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William Godwin

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

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Accident | Argument | Boldness | Censure | Deliberation | Earth | Excellence | Force | Man | Morality | Ostentation | Principles | Property | Purpose | Purpose | Rest | Right | Sense | Will | Excellence | Deliberation |

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