It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
From Thomas Jefferson
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
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.
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