“Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.”
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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
