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- One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
- As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
- The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
- I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough…
- The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to…
- ...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them
- Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man…
- Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.
- If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, "that…
- If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations…
- A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The…
- We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat…
- If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear…
- What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let…
- All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every…
- The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
- Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their…
- A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry…
- Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with everything they got
- I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care…
- If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.
- The danger is that the cruel arts of their oppressors have enchained their minds, have kept them in the ignorance of children, and as incapable…
- At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.
- The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in…
- The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
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