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There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.

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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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