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 rights of the individual.
From Thomas Jefferson
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
11 perspectives
8 perspectives
7 perspectives
6 perspectives
4 perspectives
3 perspectives
2 perspectives