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"Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."

- President Thomas Jefferson

Awareness

"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind."

- President Thomas Jefferson

Belief

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions."

- President Thomas Jefferson

Integrity

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

- President Thomas Jefferson

Courage

"Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law."

- President Thomas Jefferson

Philosophy

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"It is not what you look like on the outside, but what you are on the inside that counts."

- Beauty and the Beast

Belief

"It is the heart that makes a person beautiful, not the outward appearance."

- Beauty and the Beast

Belief

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

- Buddha

Belief

"It’s not always possible to do what we want to do, but it’s important to believe in something before you actually do it."

- Might Guy

Belief

"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."

- Josephus Daniels

Belief