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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.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
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.
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.