"One insult pocketed soon produces another...." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
One insult pocketed soon produces another.
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“Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.”
“Every generation needs a new revolution.”
“The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”
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“Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.”
“Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle with me. Away, you bottle-ale rascal! you basket-hilt stale juggler, you!”
“Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.”