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In General, We Do Well To Let An Opponent's Motives Alone. We Are Seldom Just To Them. Our Own Motives On Such Occasions Are Often Worse Than Those We Assail.

Reading Is The Royal Road To Intellectual Eminence...truly Good Books Are More Than Mines To Those Who Can Understand Them. They Are The Breathings Of The Great Souls Of Past Times. Genius Is Not Embalmed In Them, But Lives In Them Perpetually.

The Only Freedom Worth Possessing Is That Which Gives Enlargement To A People's Energy, Intellect, And Virtues.

He Who Is False To The Present Duty Breaks A Thread In The Loom, And You Will See The Effect When The Weaving Of A Life-time Is Unraveled.

The Cry Has Been That When War Is Declared, All Opposition Should Therefore Be Hushed. A Sentiment More Unworthy Of A Free Country Could Hardly Be Propagated. If The Doctrine Be Admitted, Rulers Have Only To Declare War And They Are Screened At Once From Scrutiny. . . . In War, Then, As In Peace, Assert The Freedom Of Speech And Of The Press. Cling To This As The Bulwark Of All Our Rights And Privileges.