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We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests and kings, as she can. What a colossus shall we be when the southern continent comes up to our mark! What a stand will it seem as a ralliance for the reason and freedom of the globe!
— Thomas Jefferson
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If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.
— Baruch Spinoza
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