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- My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
- That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves. If we are directed from Washington (heads of an organization) when to sow…
- We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore…
- The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care…
- The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
- Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the…
- We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat…
- Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.
- Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.
- What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let…
- In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of…
- I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction…
- I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
- On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting,…
- Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
- A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
- A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of…
- Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.
- I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our…
- A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry…
- I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care…
- The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.
- Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear…
- A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the…
- If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.
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