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I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the general welfare of the people. Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.
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