If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.

Walter Colton
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  2. Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

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  5. Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

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