Fear is the foundation of most governments.
John Adams
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- Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
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- When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.