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...Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction.

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A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

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There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more than this, t...more

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There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures i...more

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

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A government of laws, and not of men

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The happiness of society is the end of government.