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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. ↗

— Sam Houston

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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible. ↗

— Stonewall Jackson

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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander. ↗

— Ramman Kenoun

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We could in fact transport a person, say a kid who didn't know what it was like to be in a civil rights march. We could actually take you into that experience, so that you could better appreciate what happened and why it happened. ↗

— Dexter S. King

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