![]() ![]() ![]() If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny. Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. When the people fear their government, there is tyranny when the government fears the people, there is liberty. To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. or would wish unknown to the whole world. There is not a truth existing which I fear. The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. ![]() The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. " The God, who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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