"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
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"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
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"The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations."
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"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."
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"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."
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"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
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"When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty."
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"Truth between candid minds can never do harm."
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"The government you elect is the government you deserve."
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"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost."
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"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
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"When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil."
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"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions."
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"Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!"
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"When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state"
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"A true patriot will defend his country from its government."
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"Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government."
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"Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
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"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
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"Equal rights for all, special privileges for none"
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