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Obey; This May Be Right; But Beware Of Reverence.... Government Is Nothing But Regulated Force; Force Is Its Appropriate Claim Upon Your Attention. It Is The Business Of Individuals To Persuade; The Tendency Of Concentrated Strength, Is Only To Give Consistency And Permanence To An Influence More Compendious Than Persuasion.

The First Duty Of Man Is To Take None Of The Principles Of Conduct Upon Trust; To Do Nothing Without A Clear And Individual Conviction That It Is Right To Be Done.

Let Us Not, In The Eagerness Of Our Haste To Educate, Forget All The Ends Of Education.

Make Men Wise, And By That Very Operation You Make Them Free. Civil Liberty Follows As A Consequence Of This; No Usurped Power Can Stand Against The Artillery Of Opinion.

Learning Is The Ally, Not The Adversary Of Genius... He Who Reads In A Proper Spirit, Can Scarcely Read Too Much.