Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
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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.Thomas Jefferson
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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
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