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- Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
- female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them…
- 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…
- [The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.
- The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time…
- Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree,…
- The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject…
- The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their…
- Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the…
- It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.
- I hold it certain that to open the doors of truth and to fortify the habit of testing everything by reason are the most effectual…
- But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that…
- I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every breast . .…
- [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…
- The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights.
- No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the…
- Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to…
- The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.
- Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power…
- The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the…
- It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
- A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of…
- Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
- History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their…
- Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all…
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- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet. — Sebastian Bach
- People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. — Michele Bachmann
- What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put… — Erykah Badu