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"The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to."
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"Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words "gay marriage" are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it."
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"Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true."
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"The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to."
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"Popular applause veers with the wind."
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"The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction."
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"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."
Freedom
"...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans."
Politics
"I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary."
Leadership
"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."
Peace
"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people."
Leadership
"Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other."
Philosophy
"All authority belongs to the people."
Politics
"Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste."
Politics
"Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital."
Wisdom
"Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take."
Wisdom
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