A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
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Thomas Jefferson
War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
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President Grover Cleveland
The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government, its functions do not include the support of the people.
Stephen Grover Cleveland, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1893.
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Grover Cleveland, 1886
When more of the people’s sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.