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40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be shot, hanged or drawn and quartered.

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Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.

Character, Men, Action, According, Deserves
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Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists.

Men, Hands, Community, Man, Defeat

The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.

Government, People, Acting, Compels, Under

If nature had produced spontaneously all the objects which we desire, and in sufficient abundance for the desires of all, there would have been no source of dispute or of injury among men; nor would any man have possessed the means of ever acquiring authority over another.

Abundance, Acquiring, Desire, Mean, Men, Spontaneously

It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.

Known, Till, Bad, Good, Thing

Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasure.

Condition, Law, Mean, Men, Pleasure, Subsistence
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