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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most, had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past, so that we can live our dreams.
