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- Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in…
- I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure…
- besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.
- among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ...…
- Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one…
- 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…
- Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public…
- The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and…
- Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His…
- Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their…
- When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives…
- 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…
- We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation…
- If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of…
- The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.
- A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right…
- Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his…
- The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at…
- A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions.…
- 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…
- With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health,…
- The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves; they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other…
- Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.
- If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
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