No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

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Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

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That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

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It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

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The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.

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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

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I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

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The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

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No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

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