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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The Bible makes the best people in the world.

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When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

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Free men do not ask permission to bear arms

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There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.

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A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

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You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, invented and put into the papers whatever might serve the [government] ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper.

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Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

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Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

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Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

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