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“There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.”
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“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
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“I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another”
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“That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.”
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“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.”
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“Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...”
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“Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But 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 right of an individual.”
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“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
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“I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.”
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“Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man”
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“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
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