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Be it remembered, that liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we have not, our fathers have e...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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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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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

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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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I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which...more

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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.