"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."
-John Adams
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"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.“
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
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"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
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"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
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"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."
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"The happiness of society is the end of government."
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"Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training."
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"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."
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"My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science."
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"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."
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"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"
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