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Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits... it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs rulers.
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I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
April 9, 1758
Died:
July 4, 1808
(aged 50)
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