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- The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The…
- I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
- The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe…
- I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance…
- Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his…
- Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that…
- [T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his…
- Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And…
- Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and…
- If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of…
- You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject…
- But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he…
- The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left…
- It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at the University), and…
- I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a…
- I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the…
- My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on…
- The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.
- This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be…
- Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our…
- The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
- I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.
- He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and…
- A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.
- Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of the integrity of…
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- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. — Marcus Aurelius
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