What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the state powers into the hands of the general government.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two wordswhen one will do.
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The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
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No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
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When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
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One man with courage is a majority.
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I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
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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 of them.
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
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That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
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Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
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The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
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