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"I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take the power from them, but to inform them by education." -- Thomas Jefferson
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"To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people." -- President James Monroe (1758-1831)
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"The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people." -- President James Madison (1751-1836), Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
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"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." -- President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), first annual message to Congress, December 3, 1861
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"We all agree that neither the government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious sects ought not to interfere with the government or with political parties. We believe that the cause of good government and the cause of religion suffer by all such interference." -- President Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893)
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"The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community." -- President James A. Garfield (1831-1881)
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"The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by aggregated capital, and all statutes on this subject should recognize the care of the state for honest toil, and be framed with a view of improving the condition of the workingman." -- President Grover Cleveland (1837-1908)
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"America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men." -- President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
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