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- Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only…
- I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into…
- Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to…
- The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated…
- Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing…
- A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.
- Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry]…
- The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety…
- Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God.
- To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer,…
- Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.
- [The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.
- [T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own…
- Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the…
- Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent…
- Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon or planets. They…
- Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.
- The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
- The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced into…
- Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.
- Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
- Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.
- When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet…
- Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision
- The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.
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