"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."
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"A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion."
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"Creditors have better memories than debtors."
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"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still."
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"It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people."
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"No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist."
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"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens."
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"Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness."
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"In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who has this moderate amount of moral and intellectual requisites is capable of an existence which may be called enviable; and unless such a person, through bad laws, or subjection to the will of others, is denied the liberty to use the sources of happiness within his reach, he will not fail to find the enviable existence"
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"In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty."
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"If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him."
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"Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots."
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"I tell ye true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter."
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"LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words."
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"Beware the hobby that eats."
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"Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate."
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"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible."
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"There's never been a good government."
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"Only powerful people have liberty."
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"We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty."
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