Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

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The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

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Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.

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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

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