"Free men do not ask permission to bear arms"
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"He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors."
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"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks."
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"If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism."
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"Amplification is the vice of modern oratory."
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"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind."
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"Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks."
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"I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others."
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"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever."
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"The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs."
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"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."
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"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
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"The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights"
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"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
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"Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction."
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"Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision"
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"Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation."
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"If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose."
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"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."
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"A room without books is like a life without meaning."
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