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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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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.
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
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.
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
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 learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
