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• Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which
  under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty....
• The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered.
  .. deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people....
• In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
• In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. JEFFERSON
• The citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy--a policy worthy of imitation.
  All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship....
• It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go. -- George Washington, 14 December 1799
• In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...