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“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”

Thomas Jefferson · Loneliness

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It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

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When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

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Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

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