“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.”
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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
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.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
