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Our land is not more the recipient of the men of all countries than of their ideas.
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The variation of excellence among men is rather in degree than in kind.
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Pedants are men who would appear to be learned, without the necessary ingredient of knowledge.
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The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
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In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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Born:
October 3, 1800
Died:
January 17, 1891
(aged 90)
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