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Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.

Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.

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If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday.

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.

...till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion.

Well done is better than well said.

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

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He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

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Speak little, do much.