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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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.

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The Bible makes the best people in the world.

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It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

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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.

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When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.

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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

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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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Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

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

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