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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.
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.
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.
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
