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- Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
- Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of…
- Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
- The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
- The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
- History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
- Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
- Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
- Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption…
- The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
- Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man…
- The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a…
- When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to…
- Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . .…
- I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
- The only security of all is in a free press.
- Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.
- When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.
- Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people…
- Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.
- The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
- Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
- I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility of matter endowed…
- The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
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