"We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists"
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"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
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"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
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"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people."
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"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
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"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it."
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"A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life."
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"An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy."
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"A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle."
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"My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just"
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"What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth."
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"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
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"The only security of all is in a free press."
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"Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other."
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"The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family."
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"Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other."
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"Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country."
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"I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man."
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"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus."
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"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time."
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