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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Taxes are the sinews of the state.

Taxes are the sinews of the state.

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and read more

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be read more

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.