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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)

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. - Author object (99)

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off. - Author object (99)

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors. - Author object (99)

Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. - Author object (99)

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. - Author object (99)

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. - Author object (99)

A little rebellion is a good thing. - Author object (99)

A room without books is like a life without meaning. - Author object (99)

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. - Author object (99)

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be. - Author object (99)

If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as a sorry state as the souls who live under tyranny. - Author object (99)

A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. - Author object (99)

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. - Author object (99)

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not. - Author object (99)

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent they conquered. - Author object (99)

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other. - Author object (99)

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today. - Author object (99)

Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world. - Author object (99)

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus. - Author object (99)