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First Principles: Truth Can Stand By Itself. Subject Opinion To Coercion: Whom Will You Make Your Inquisitors
“Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged Bad Passions, Coercion, Desirable, Face and Stature, FallibleMen, First Principles, Inquisitors, Opinion, Private, Public, Reasons, Stand, Subject, Thomas Jefferson, Tuth, Uniformity
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First Principles: There Is No Maxim…Which Is More Liable To Be Misapplied,…Than…That the Interest of the Majority Is the Political Standard of Right and Wrong
“There is no maxim in my opinion which is more liable to be misapplied, and which therefore needs elucidation than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.” – James Madison … Continue reading
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Tagged Current, Elucidation, First Princicples, Interest, James Madison, Liable, Majority, Maxim, Misapplied, Opinion, Political Standard, Right and Wrong
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First Principles: Nothing Is So Contagious As Opinion, Especially On Questions Which, Susceptible of Very Different Glosses, Begat In the Mind A Distrust of Itself
“Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.” – James Madison (1790)
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Tagged Contagious, Different Glosses, Distrust, First Principles, James Madison, Mind, Nothing, Opinion, Questions
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Thought For the Day: We Are So Vain That We Even Care For the Opinion of Those We Don’t Care For
“We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.” -Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, writer (1830-1916)
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First Principles: It Is Error Alone Which Needs the Support of Government. Truth Can Stand By Itself
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged Coercision, Error, First Pricniiples, Government, Inquisitors, Opinion, Support, Thomas Jefferson, Truth
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First Principles: It Is Error Alone Which Needs the Support of Government. Truth Can Stand By Itself
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
First Principles: The Best Means of Forming A…Virtuous, and Happy People Will Be Found In the Right Education of Youth
“The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.” – George Washington (1784) The only thing needed to … Continue reading
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First Principles: Truth Can Stand By Itself. Subject Opinion To Coercion: Whom Will You Make Your Inquisitors
“Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” -Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged Coecion, First Principles, Inquistors, Opinion, Stand, Thomas Jefferson, Truth
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Thought For the Day: We Are So Vain That We Even Care For the Opinion of Those We Don’t Care For
“We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.” – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, writer (13 Sep 1830-1916)
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Tagged Care, Don't Care For, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Opinion, Thought For the Day, Vain, We
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First Principles: It Is Error Alone That Needs the Support of Government. Truth Can Stand By Itself.
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” —Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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