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Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not,...more

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Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or pr...more

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Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

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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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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but ...more

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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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Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

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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.