No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.

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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

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Government is best which governs least

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When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.

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To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

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A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.

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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

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