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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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When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
