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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happine...more

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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

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In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example and France has followed it, of charters of power granted by lib...more

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Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be ...more

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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

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it was impossible to confine a Government to the exercise of express powers; there must necessarily be admitted powers by implication, unless the Cons...more

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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest suppo...more

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In no instance have the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

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The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a ...more

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It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but ...more

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The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessing of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the peopl...more