"The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave."
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"Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck."
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"No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism."
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"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching."
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"If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed."
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"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
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"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
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"An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them to exercise oversight. It is therefore imperative that the nation see to it that a suitable education be provided for all its citizens."
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"Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light."
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"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
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"When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither."
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"Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth."
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"It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness."
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"Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning."
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"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
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"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
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"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
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"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."
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"I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution."
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"There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people."
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