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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
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Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
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If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.
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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
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The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.
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Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
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I have not seen a newspaper in over a month, and feel much the better for it.
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A little rebellion now and then...is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
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Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
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Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.
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Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
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A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something.
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I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives, for it is from our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read. By the same test must the world judge me.
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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
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If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
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