The objects of this primary education. . . would be. . . to form the statesmen, legislators and … - Thomas Jefferson

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I've always been interested in the outsider.

Thomas Jefferson

The objects of this primary education. . . would be. . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.

Depend, Education, Individual Happiness, Judging, Statesmen

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The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that. . . it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Constitutions, Gun, Inherent, People, States, Strong Arms

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Book, Business, Man, Nothing, Reading, Reads

A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

Country, Government, Patriot, True

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

Abandon, Achieve, Freedom, Lose, Security

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Democracies Have, Entrusted, Forms, Shewn, Time, Trust

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Mary Butts

I cannot remember a time when I was not enraptured or tortured by words. Always there have been words which, sometimes for their sound alone, sometimes for their sound and sense, I would not use. From a loathing of their grossness or sickliness, their weight or want of weight. Their inexactitude, their feeling of acidity or insipidity. Their action, not only on the intelligence but on the nerves, was instant.

Feelings, Insipidity, Nerves, Sound, Time, Tortured

Maggie Siff

Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.

Blanchett, Chameleon, Feels, Love, Watches, Way

Charles de Lint

I've always been interested in the outsider.

Interested, Outsider, Outsiders

Jane Fonda

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Affirmation, Awareness, Our Words, Repetition, Subconscious, Words

Daisaku Ikeda

If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is found the heart of a victor.

Challenges, Found, Heart, Lose, Tomorrow, Winning