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"אַ שפּראַך איז אַ דיאַלעקט מיט אַן אַרמיי און פֿלאָט​" [A language is a dialect with an army and navy​.]​ —​ ​Max Weinreich

​"​Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a château does to its owner.​"​ —​ ​Nicolas Chamfort

​"​Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are the most serious obstacles to reform.​" —​ ​Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (1849)

​"​The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers…

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