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Thomas Jefferson

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.”

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Clarence, George Bailey’s guardian angel, in the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life”

“Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?”

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Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 1, December 19, 1776

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”

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Henry David Thoreau

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”

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Benjamin Franklin

“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”

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Sam Adams

“Is it not high time for the people of this country explicitly to declare whether they will be freemen or slaves? It is an important question, which ought to be decided. It concerns us more than anything in this life.”