"It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." --Samuel Adams

The Foundation
"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens." --Joseph Story

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+ amuel Harrison Smith, 1826

+ e said of but few such prodigies, that the Genius of Philosophy ever walked hand in hand with him." --James Madison, on Thomas Jefferson in a letter to S

+ He was certainly one of the most learned men of the age. It may be said of him as has been said of others that he was a 'walking Library,' and what can b