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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country

Thomas Jefferson

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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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