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Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.
Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.
I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.
Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .
The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Peace is our passion.
Force cannot give right.
Merchants have no country.
All men are created equal.
The smell rewards the care.
I cannot live without books.
Delay is preferable to error.
The merchant has no country .
Light and liberty go together.
Everything yields to diligence.
The sun - my almighty physician.
Resisting tyranny is obeying God
Dependence leads to subservience.
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
Tranquility is the old man's milk.
One man with courage is a majority.
A little rebellion is a good thing.
Health is worth more than learning.
Freedom, the first-born of science.
I have sworn upon the altar of god.
Without virtue, happiness cannot be.
A strong body makes the mind strong.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
All power is inherent in the people.
A little revolution is a good thing.
All authority belongs to the people.
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance.
Ministers and merchants love nobody.
Never use one word when two will do.
Never use two words when one will do.
Action will delineate and define you.
As government grows, freedom recedes.
