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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. - Author object (99)

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. - Author object (99)

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom. - Author object (99)

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. - Author object (99)

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. - Author object (99)

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. - Author object (99)

On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Author object (99)

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty. - Author object (99)

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. - Author object (99)

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. - Author object (99)

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. - Author object (99)

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. - Author object (99)

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations. - Author object (99)

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. - Author object (99)

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants. - Author object (99)

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing. - Author object (99)

Information is the currency of democracy. - Author object (99)

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. - Author object (99)

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny! - Author object (99)

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. - Author object (99)