Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
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The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
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Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
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