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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

George Washington

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There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.
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