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"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
"Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals."
"More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."
"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."
"The real difference between men is energy."
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"The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science."
"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions."
"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."
"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both."
"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."
"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."
"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."
"A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country."
"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea."
"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."
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