“Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.”
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It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.