Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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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 equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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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 civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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