"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."
-James A. Garfield
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"The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.“
-James A. Garfield
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"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."
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"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
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