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- We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
- Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
- 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…
- 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…
- I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or…
- The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.
- 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…
- It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.
- It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe…
- The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
- Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond…
- 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…
- 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…
- The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.
- To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and…
- Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.
- Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.
- We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.
- We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is…
- A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness. If we…
- I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.
- Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while…
- Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom…
- Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.
- I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where…
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