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- The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that…
- The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.
- I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest…
- An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them…
- Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.
- In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first…
- He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For…
- In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either…
- I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all…
- 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…
- Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind, my…
- That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition,…
- The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to…
- Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every…
- And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is the most legitimate…
- I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I…
- As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading…
- Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property…
- 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…
- Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but they differ essentially…
- I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.
- Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy…
- In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the general government. I…
- If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become…
- 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…
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