The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhat a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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