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"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." --Thomas Jefferson
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." --Thomas Jefferson
History requires a world of time and bitter hard work when your "education" is no further advanced than the cat's; when you are merely stuffing yourself with a mixed-up mess of empty names and random incidents and elusive dates; which no one teaches you how to interpret, and which, uninterpreted, pay you not a farthing's value for your waste of time. -- Mark Twain
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. --Thomas Paine
I have a Dream ---Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The World is my country, all humankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. --Thomas Paine
“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.” -- Rachel Carson
“The earth is what we all have in common.” --Wendell Barry
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as life lasts” -- Rachel Carson
“The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.” --William Faulkner
“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.” --Wendell Berry
We have it in our power to begin the world over again. --Thomas Paine