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* "Educate and inform the whole mass of [[citizen|the people]]... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our [[liberty]]." -- [[Thomas Jefferson]]
 
* "Educate and inform the whole mass of [[citizen|the people]]... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our [[liberty]]." -- [[Thomas Jefferson]]
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* "When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits — despotic in his ordinary demeanour — known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty — when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity — to join in the cry of danger to liberty — to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion — to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day — It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind." -- [[Alexander Hamilton]] to [[George Washington]]<ref>From [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/23/prophetic-alexander-hamilton-quote-democrats-say-predicted-need-impeach-trump/ The ‘prophetic’ Alexander Hamilton quote Democrats say predicted the need to impeach Trump  - The Washington Post (washingtonpost.com)]</ref>
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* "When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits — despotic in his ordinary demeanour — known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty — when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity — to join in the cry of danger to liberty — to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion — to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day — It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind." -- [[Alexander Hamilton]] to [[George Washington]]<ref>From Washington Post article [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/23/prophetic-alexander-hamilton-quote-democrats-say-predicted-need-impeach-trump/ "The ‘prophetic’ Alexander Hamilton quote Democrats say predicted the need to impeach Trump" - The Washington Post (washingtonpost.com)]. —Accessed 5 February 2020</ref>
    
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